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 like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
I don’t want to live on past records.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
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.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
I’m very much a family person.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.
I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.
I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up.
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.
You are never really prepared for criticism.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.