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

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.

I’m very much a family person.

When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens

As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.

I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

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.