Phil Collins Quotes - Page 3

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

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.

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.

We all have the same problems in relationships.

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.

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.

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

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.

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.

I don't really listen to music.

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.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

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.

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've been a long-distance father.

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.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

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?

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.

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.