Does anyone else remember this distinctly Andy quote about the BeeGees?

I vaguely remember a sidebar in a music magazine article about the Bee Gees in which Andy Partridge was quoted as saying that, in their early days, the Bee Gees were basically “chewing off their own limbs to be the Beatles.”

It’s such a striking image that the quote has always stuck with me, but I’ve never been able to track it down. The article could have been in a UK or US magazine, sometime in the ’90s or ’00s. I can’t remember which.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? I’d love to find the original quote.