Born on September 1st

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

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

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

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

"I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper."

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

"Everybody is a teenage idol."

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

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

"I never really did any disco dancing."

"Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done."

"The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I'm very much a family person."

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

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

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

"I don't ever wish I was somebody else."

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

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

"I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand."

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

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