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I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

I love stuff like Mozart.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

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.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

I love food, I love eating.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

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

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

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'm very much a family person.