Phil Collins
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
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.
I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
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.
I prefer black music in general.
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.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.Collection: Inspirational
Love can make you do things that you never thought possibleCollection: Love
Perception determines insanity.Collection: Insanity
Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.Collection: Thinking
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkersCollection: Selfish
Put your faith in what you most believe in.Collection: Believe
Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.Collection: Being Yourself
Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.Collection: Heart
Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.Collection: Heart
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.Collection: Strong
As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.Collection: Understanding
Deep inside us we're not that different at all.Collection: Diversity
The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.Collection: Answers
Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spiritsCollection: Free Spirit
Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...Collection: Fun
I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.Collection: Dirty
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.Collection: Keys
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.Collection: Week
This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.Collection: Stupid
We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.Collection: Running
Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!Collection: Reality
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.Collection: Children
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.Collection: New York
I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.Collection: Talking
I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.Collection: Writing
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don't read Lord of the Rings when they're 30 even though they did at 15.Collection: Song
As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.Collection: Hollywood
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!Collection: Struggle
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.Collection: People
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.Collection: Albums
You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.Collection: Lying
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.Collection: Firsts
I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.Collection: Thinking
We all have the same problems in relationships.Collection: Relationship Problem
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.Collection: Please
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.Collection: Fighting
God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubblesCollection: Water
I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.Collection: Father