The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

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.