Phil Collins Quotes

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

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

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

Genesis fans are a religious group!

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.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

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

Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

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.

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

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

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

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I prefer black music in general.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I've been a long-distance father.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.