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

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

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..

The Bee Gees no longer exist..

Everybody is a teenage idol..

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

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

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

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.

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

You are never really prepared for criticism..

I don't ever wish I was somebody else..

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

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