I'm very much a family person.
Barry Gibb
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
You are never really prepared for criticism.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
I don't want to live on past records.
I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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 love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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.
I never really did any disco dancing.
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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 on.
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
