I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.

I am scared of running out of money.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.