I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I’m a nutter. I don’t think that’s fair.
I prefer black music in general.
I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.
I’m sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn’t mean it to happen like that. It’s hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
I’m usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
I’ve got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It’s fantastic just to know it’s one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
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.
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’ll have the music, and then I’ll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
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.