Barry Gibb quotes:

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

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

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

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

Everybody is a teenage idol.

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

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

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

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

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

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.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

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

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I never really did any disco dancing.

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

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

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

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

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

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

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing

I don't want to live on past records.

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

I'm very much a family person.

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

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