Robin Gibb

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't like rock opera with back beats.”

“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.”

“Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.”

“I've always been naturally thin.”

“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.”

“You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.”

“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 have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 love food, I love eating.”

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

“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.”

“You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.”