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I'd love to work with Disney again.
— Phil Collins
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
— Phil Collins
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
I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.
— Phil Collins
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
— Phil Collins
My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
— Phil Collins
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
— Phil Collins
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
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
— Phil Collins
Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
— Phil Collins
Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
— Phil Collins
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.
— Phil Collins
I've been a long-distance father.
— Phil Collins
We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
— Matt Stone
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.
— Phil Collins
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.
— Phil Collins
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.
— Phil Collins
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
I don't really listen to music.
— Phil Collins
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.
— 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
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.
— Phil Collins
I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.
— Phil Collins
Genesis fans are a religious group!
— Phil Collins
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.
— Phil Collins
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
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!
— Phil Collins
Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
— Noel Gallagher
Put your faith in what you most believe in.
— Phil Collins
And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
— Phil Collins
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
— Phil Collins
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
Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
— Noel Gallagher
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
— Phil Collins
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
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
— Phil Collins
I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
— Phil Collins
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
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
— Phil Collins
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
— Phil Collins
Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.
— Phil Collins
Creationists, the right-wing Christians, creationists believe every word Genesis says. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer.
— Jimmy Carr
You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
— Noel Gallagher
I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins ... you should be shot in the head.
— Robert Clark
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
— Phil Collins
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy.
— Noel Gallagher
There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
— Phil Collins
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
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
— 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
They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
— Phil Collins
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.
— Phil Collins
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
— 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
That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He ... died.'
— Phil Collins
There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
— Ahmet Ertegun
God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
— 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
I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
— Taylor Hawkins
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
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
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
The world is in your hands, now use it.
— Phil Collins