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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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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.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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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.
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I'm very much a family person.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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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.
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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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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.
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I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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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.
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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.
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The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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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'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
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I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
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I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.