220 Quotes by Phil Collins

I’ve spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

To be honest, I couldn’t hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English – and that’s a struggle sometimes!

Well, shall we play Phil the song first?” No one says that.

In the Air Tonight” is 99.9 percent sung spontaneously, the words dreamt up from out of nowhere.

Everyones a hypercrit and if you don’t agree you’re a liar as well.

When he isn’t drumming with The Who, Moonie seems to like playing barman in La Chasse. I buy a round from him one night, and he gives me back more money than I’d handed over. Another reason to love him.

Because he has a flatmate, I have no option but to share Trevor’s bed. Terrified, I try to sleep, fitfully and fully dressed on top of the blankets. Presently, the fidgeting begins, and soon a hand is creeping over. I’m out of there quicker than you can say “paradiddle.

I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that’s not cool. But in the real world, there’s no shame in that at all.

It takes some going to live next door to Keith Richards and be classed as the rowdy neighbor. No, I’m not proud.