The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
Genesis fans are a religious group!
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
I can’t remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
I do that in whatever language of the country I’m in, because the audience appreciate it.
I’ve spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
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 grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.
I know it shouldn’t make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren’t sure what day it was – it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
I’m not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn’t be bad but that’s not the aim. I’m just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I’ve not been before.
I’m writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I’ve brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
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.
Often there’s a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
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.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
I’ve been a long-distance father.