I can’t accept that he’s dead. I just imagine he’s alive somewhere else. Pretend is the right word. Pretend is where I’m at.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it’s never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite...

We said we’d fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn’t give him a kiss because I still hadn’t accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen....

The other weekend I was on the ferry to Ireland, and they were showing a documentary about the Bee Gees. They had these giant screens, and Maurice’s face was everywhere. I couldn’t look at them....

You know, we’d just had a birthday, he was… you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the...

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 on.

You’re looking at the Bee Gees right now.

I’m really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think...

The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice’s name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised… I think I’ve matured. I don’t take things lightly any more.

I hadn’t accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn’t wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in… Maurice had no brain left. There wasn’t any activity...

We’ve been in each other’s pockets our entire lives.

I’ll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren’t so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

The real world was just too real, and we didn’t want to be a part of normal life. We wanted to create a magical world for the three of us.

I was in the car on my way to London, and Radio 2 was doing the Bee Gees story. They started playing the demos we’d made, then I heard Maurice talking. Suddenly that feeling of...

I’m not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I’d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees’ sound. I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Everyone’s looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

One morning I’d woken up about 4 a.m., feeling nauseous. The feeling lasted about an hour. It was at the time Maurice was in hospital with pains in his stomach. It was probably some indication...

I haven’t really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I refuse to believe my brother is dead.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you’d go, what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That’s...

I don’t take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It’s made me wonder about mortality and how long you’ve got somebody in the world. I’m more fearful than I used to be.

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don’t think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history...

I was being kept abreast of everything by phone, phoned almost by the hour, so I knew everything that was going on… I still can’t come to terms with it now. It’s just almost like...

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can’t I imagine Maurice is alive in this one? An artist is a person who uses art to run...

Maurice walked into that place complaining of a stomachache. He had eaten breakfast and hadn’t been ill the day before that. They took one x-ray, gave him a painkiller… That was 4 p.m. Thirteen hours...

I couldn’t stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can’t stand there and look at it.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

We’re both devastated. We’ve actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.

I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they’d get him back. You hope against hope that they’re right.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn’t decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we’ve decided to continue as the...