“It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.”

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

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk.

I never really did any disco dancing.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they’re available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren’t for the band, I think I’d still be getting high.

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I’ve always been singing, and I’ve always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.