I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee.
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 genre.
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.
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That’s how fragile our consciousness is.
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
We’ve been in each other’s pockets our entire lives.
I love stuff like Mozart.
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 away from reality. It’s not wrong-it’s survival. There’s nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
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.
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. Of course, it didn’t. I wish I had kissed him now.
I don’t like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
Everyone’s looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.
Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
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 love food, I love eating.