Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

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.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

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

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.

We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here.

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Robin hasn't got a big nose - but I can soon arrange that.

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

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

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.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

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.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

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 heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

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.

Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.

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

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.

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.

Harmonies are nice.

After Saturday Night Fever we wanted to do a poster with the three of us in Rambos bodies with machine guns and in the background thered be a body in a white suit bullet ridden and the mirror ball all shot to pieces.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.