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.

— Phil Collins

Phil Collins Quotes

Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.

— Phil Collins

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night’s show. If there’s one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can’t eat later than four o’clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That’s my day.

— Phil Collins

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

— Phil Collins

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I’ve earned the right to actually do nothing. I don’t want to be a shadow of what I was, so I’ve kind of just quite willingly stood back.

— Phil Collins

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I’ve surpassed that.

— Phil Collins

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

— Phil Collins

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

— Phil Collins

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I’m a huge collector of memorabilia. I’ve got Davy Crockett’s bullet pouch. I’ve got Colonel Travis’s belt.

— Phil Collins

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.

— Phil Collins

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles.

— Phil Collins

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.

— Phil Collins

Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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.

— Phil Collins
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