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

Everybody is a teenage idol..

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

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

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly..

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

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.

I don't want to live on past records..

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'm very much a family person..

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

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

I never really did any disco dancing..

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper..

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

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

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

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