220 Quotes by Phil Collins

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.

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

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

Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!

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.

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

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.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.