Phil Collins Quotes

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

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

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.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

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

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

Perception determines insanity.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

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'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.

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry There's so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why You're the only one who really knew me at all So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face Take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face

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

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

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.

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

I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.

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.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

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.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

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

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

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

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

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.

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

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

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

I think I was the best drummer!

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

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.

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.

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

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

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.

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

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

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.