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" The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. "

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" 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. "

Robin Gibb

Feeling

Anger

Dying

" I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. "

" 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. "

" With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more. "

Robin Gibb

Think

Things

" My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. "

" I love food, I love eating. "

" Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. "

" 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. "

" The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do. "

Robin Gibb

Death

You

" I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it. "

" 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. "

" The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore. "

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

Robin Gibb

Abroad

Any

" It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice. "

Robin Gibb

Feel

Thinking

" How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business. "

" I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity. "

" My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game. "

" If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. "

" 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. "

" It's hard for me to put on weight. "

Robin Gibb

Weight

Put

" 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. "

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

" I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. "

Robin Gibb

Moment

Month

" Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. "

" I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. "

" 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 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. "

Robin Gibb

Walk

Uncomfortable

" My work means everything to me. "

Robin Gibb

Work

Means

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

" 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. "