"My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me."

"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'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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us."

"We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question."

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

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

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

"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."

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

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

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

"The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music."

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

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

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

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

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

"I never really did any disco dancing."

"You are never really prepared for criticism."

"Everybody is a teenage idol."

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

"I'm very much a family person."

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