Phil Collins Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.”

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

“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.”

“Genesis fans are a religious group!”

“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.”

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

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