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.

In this remark, Gibb frames personal loss through the language of moral accounting: success feels as if it must be “paid for” by suffering. The word “karmic” signals a quasi-spiritual attempt to impose order on grief—suggesting that the Bee Gees’ extraordinary public rewards (fame, wealth, adulation) might be balanced by private tragedies. The statement also reveals survivor’s guilt and the psychological strain of celebrity, where triumph can coexist with a sense of cosmic unfairness or indebtedness. Rather than asserting a doctrine, the phrasing “I sometimes wonder” keeps it tentative, emphasizing uncertainty and the human impulse to search for meaning after repeated family trauma.