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 that are going to take up a lot of time.”

“On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.”

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

“'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.”

“I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.”

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

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

“And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.”

“Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Genesis fans are a religious group!”

“I don't really listen to music.”

“Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.”

“I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.”

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

“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.”