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I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.
Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.
I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.
I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.
I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.
That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.
Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.
Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordinary.
I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.
I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents
I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time
Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.