You are never really prepared for criticism.
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.
When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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.
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.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
I don't want to live on past records.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Everybody is a teenage idol.