Robin Gibb Quotes
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When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
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My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
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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.
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I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
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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.
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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.
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We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.
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I love food, I love eating.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been naturally thin.
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It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
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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.
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With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
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Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
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Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
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If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
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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.
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I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
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You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
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I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.
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My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.
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I love stuff like Mozart.
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We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
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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.
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