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

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.

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.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.