220 Quotes by Phil Collins

I’ve been a long-distance father.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: ‘It’s OK – we can just do instrumentals.’

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

You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night’s show. If there’s one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can’t eat later than four o’clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That’s my day.

I don’t really listen to music.

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...

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.

Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth.