Phil Collins Quotes
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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.
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
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No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.
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I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.
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I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
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I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.
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I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
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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.
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When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.
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Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
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I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
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There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
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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.