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.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

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.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

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.