Phil Collins

I've been a long-distance father.

— Phil Collins

We all have the same problems in relationships.

— Phil Collins

I think I was the best drummer!

— Phil Collins

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

— Phil Collins

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

— Phil Collins

I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

— Phil Collins

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

— 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

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at…

— Phil Collins

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic,…

— Phil Collins

Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending…

— 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 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…

— Phil Collins

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…

— Phil Collins

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects…

— Phil Collins

Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's…

— 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…

— Phil Collins

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of…

— Phil Collins

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if…

— Phil Collins

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that…

— Phil Collins

I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the…

— 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…

— 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 can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

— Phil Collins

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

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

— Phil Collins

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

— Phil Collins