Without any good songs or being able to perform or entertain, you wouldn’t survive. It’s about having an equal balance between things.

It’s very hard to write a song alone. It’s only by jamming that you can get a song together.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

We were in the Green Room watching Elvis Costello, and I thought it was pretty good. He still is not that bad. But we were told he was a huge fan.

I heard my brother’s voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

I’m such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Jim Morrison’s very good looking, but I don’t like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

You’re either too fat or too thin. You just can’t win.

We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I’ll be able to appreciate the money we’ve made.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn’t angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn’t understand why Robin had done it.

You’re only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Robin hasn’t got a big nose – but I can soon arrange that.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they’d say, That’s just one of the Bee Gees.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can’t handle it because of late-night drinking.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children’s feelings, but I’m making up for that now. I’m winning my children’s trust back.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu’s mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave ’em a bit of thigh.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don’t choose when these things happen, and when they do, there’s no doubt...

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

I was in my bath and looked down-my body was covered with bruises. When Robin came home from the hospital, he had bruises in exactly the same places.

I’m a perfectionist.

They don’t bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

I write the music because I can’t really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin’s never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I’ve done a lot of partying in my time because I didn’t want to go home and I didn’t know what to do.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It’s atrocious. It’s hideous, really.

Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time.

I’ll be honest. We copied everyone… the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

It’s good to have to put yourself in someone else’s skin. It’s all-consuming.

We don’t mind being ripped apart, but don’t rip the songs apart. They’re like our kids.

Finally, I found a program that’s put my troubles behind me.

I’m not a big blues fan, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t dig B.B. King.

It’s much easier to write when you’re sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis ’cause I’ve always liked him, his shows. I’ve sort of followed his career a bit ’cause he had a lot of that on PBS over...

FOr a while, I’d never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

I’m quite proud of my piano playing. Robin’s never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

Nicole Richie is supposed to be way too thin. It’s more likely she’s gone that way as a reaction to being called too chubby in the past. It’s her only way of controlling the situation...

We recorded this song about six years ago in Australia. It didn’t do a bloody thing then, and I don’t think this version will do anything today.

Harmonies are nice.