220 Quotes by Phil Collins

I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I’ve always been bothered by that assumption.

I can’t play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn’t bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can’t hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

I suppose you can’t take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song.

I can’t remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

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.

It’s always been easy with Mark, he’s a rock fan and we speak the same language. He’s a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does – he’s Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole.