Phil Collins Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I don't really listen to music.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.”

“Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.”

“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.”