The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.
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.
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.