Barry Gibb

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.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

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.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.