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

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

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.
Phil Collins

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

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
Phil Collins

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate 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 myself out of the script entirely.
Phil Collins

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.
Phil Collins

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.
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'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.
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 do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
Phil Collins

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

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

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
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 would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
Phil Collins

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
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

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Type: Musician
Nationality: English
Born: January 30, 1951

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