There’s still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

We think that at this point in our lives, the sooner we get back to what we think our gift is, is writing songs… Maurice will be a void, always in our lives and he...

My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

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.