Quotes by Phil Collins

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.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

And now I realize: I was fired. They didn’t disappear to watch football, or do drugs. They were getting rid of me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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