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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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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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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
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The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.
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Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice
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One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.
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When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
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With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
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I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
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You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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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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I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
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I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.
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I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
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It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
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I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.