220 Quotes by Phil Collins

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

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

I wish it wasn't like this. I sit and watch stuff on the television, I think, 'Why, why, why.

We're all still good friends. We spent like 30 or 25 years of our life in the same office, ... Just because we don't play in the same band anymore doesn't mean we don't see each other and enjoy each other's company.

Coach gave us a motivational speech in the locker room, and we wanted to come out and play hard for him and the seniors (in their final home game).

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities

They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here but they've had a go at me personally.

There's a possibility. I'm open for it. If it doesn't happen, it won't be because we don't want to. It will just be because there are too many things in the way. I'm happy to sit behind the drum kit and let Peter (Gabriel) be the singer, but if it happens, I'll be there.

I'm nice until I have a reason not to be. I work hard and people sense that. But I'm different things to different people. To the middle-aged housewife I'm some-one who looks like a "little boy lost"; to the people who know only One More Night and Against All Odds, I'm probably this sweet and sensitive guy. But there are many other songs, many other sides. I don't like that sickly sweet image.