220 Quotes by Phil Collins

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.

That’s the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it’ll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

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

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I’m a nutter. I don’t think that’s fair.

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 parents.

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

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.

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.

Testimony is contingent on experience, that’s why we’re all free spirits.