Top 90 Phil Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When we’re touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.”

— Phil Collins

52. “Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project – like now, we’re just finishing off an album – and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.”

— Phil Collins

53. “Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!”

— Phil Collins

54. “I’ve spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.”

— Phil Collins

55. “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

56. “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.”

— Phil Collins

57. “I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.”

— Phil Collins

58. “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.”

— Phil Collins

59. “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.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

61. “On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I’m going to say.”

— Phil Collins

62. “As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.”

— Phil Collins

63. “I’d love to work with Disney again.”

— Phil Collins

64. “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.”

— Phil Collins

65. “I’m just trying to do things that are interesting for me.”

— Phil Collins

66. “I do that in whatever language of the country I’m in, because the audience appreciate it.”

— Phil Collins

67. “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.”

— Phil Collins

68. “Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!”

— Phil Collins

69. “The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn’t ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.”

— Phil Collins

70. “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

71. “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.”

— Phil Collins

72. “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.”

— Phil Collins

73. “If it’s the beginning of something – like an album, I’m working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.”

— Phil Collins

74. “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.”

— Phil Collins

75. “I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...”

— Phil Collins

76. “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.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

78. “I’m usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.”

— Phil Collins

79. “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.”

— Phil Collins

80. “We’re all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we’re close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God...”

— Phil Collins

81. “I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.”

— Phil Collins

82. “I’ve been a long-distance father.”

— Phil Collins

83. “And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.”

— Phil Collins

84. “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.”

— Phil Collins

85. “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

86. “It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.”

— Phil Collins

87. “You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

89. “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.”

— Phil Collins

90. “I suppose you can’t take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

92. “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

93. “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.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

95. “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

96. “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

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

— Phil Collins

98. “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