Phil Collins Quotes
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.
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.
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
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'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.
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
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.
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.
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!
That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.
You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.
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.
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.
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
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.