that you’ve got to dust yourself off.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

Anything can inspire me – a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

[The result was] Stranger in a Strange Land, … Guilty Pleasures.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I think vocally and mentally we’ve managed to stay intact, somehow.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I never really did any disco dancing.

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.””

It’s very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice’s life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now...