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.
Lots of people aren’t comfortable with silences. They feel they’ve got to fill the dead air.
I’ve always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I’ve always been skinny.
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
It’s hard for me to put on weight.
I’ve always been naturally thin.
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
I’ll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren’t so painful any more-not so raw or so new.
An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Losing people makes you realize you’ve got to grab life – not put things off.
I’m really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it’s important to give tomorrow’s songwriters the opportunity.
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it’s private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
I don’t know what ‘home’ or ‘abroad’ is any more.
I don’t like rock opera with back beats.
I don’t have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
I don’t like fruit but I’m vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.
I haven’t really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.
If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
My work means everything to me.