Phil Collins
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.Collection: Stars
I've been a long-distance father.Collection: Father
I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.Collection: Tattoo
There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?Collection: Thinking
When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.Collection: People
I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.Collection: Believe
I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: Odds
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 timeCollection: Albums
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.Collection: Philosophy
You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sonsCollection: Regret
I can't consider myself a drummer any more.Collection: Drummer
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.Collection: Tattoo
Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!Collection: Believe
I think I was the best drummer!Collection: Thinking
I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.Collection: Use
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.Collection: Machines
You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.Collection: Country
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.Collection: Simple
I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.Collection: Thinking
The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.Collection: Thinking
They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Real
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 parentsCollection: Kids
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Gun
I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.Collection: Stuff
I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: People
Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as wellCollection: Liars
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.Collection: Writing
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
Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I’ve been told...Collection: Fun
You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.Collection: Fun