I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother’s voice.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that...

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band – we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I never liked making albums.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

If you’ve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you’ve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have...

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....

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment – to get a lot of choices, a lot of different...

I don’t trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends’ houses.

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

I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Well I used to hang out with Brian at the Speakeasy and he used to take me home in his Rolls and drop me off at my ‘6 a week flat.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture.

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.

Optimism is the key.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

You feel the music needs something but you don’t know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that’s frustrating, especially if you don’t come up with...

I don’t use the twang bar anymore. It’s become too popular.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I’ve always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

In the past, I’d sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I’d know what sort of way a melody was going to go ’cause of the way he’d approach...

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

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it...

If a ballet dancer falls over, it’s knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don’t ask the names.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

You’re looking at the Bee Gees right now.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece...

I don’t want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I’m doing with my hips, but it’s their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I’m a little bit...

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I’ve had a wordless phase, and that’s still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.

The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.

Talk radio doesn’t need to be political.

I don’t find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

There are people I would like to work with. It’s a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can’t really circulate. So I...

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.

So, if we’re happy playing the songs we have written, for as long as we can, then that is sort of the proof that they’re good songs as well.