Latest Phil Collins Quotes from Interviews

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• As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

  Phil Collins

  Understanding, Different, Dynamics

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

• We all have the same problems in relationships.

  Phil Collins

  Relationship Problem, Problem

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

• I think I was the best drummer!

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Drummer

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

• I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

  Phil Collins

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

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

  Phil Collins

  Hollywood, Realising

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

• 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 quite extraordinary.

  Phil Collins

  Tattoo, Basketball, Soccer

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

  Phil Collins

  Tattoo, Husband, Poor

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don't read Lord of the Rings when they're 30 even though they did at 15.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Book, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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

  Phil Collins

  Machines, Drummer, Composer

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  Simple, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  People, Cost, Machines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

  Phil Collins

  Stupid, Sensitivity

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, People, Like You

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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 it now.

  Phil Collins

  Please, Get Over, Courses

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

  Phil Collins

  Writing, Genres Of Music, Should

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

  Phil Collins

  Dirty, Mean, Successful

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

  Phil Collins

  Use, Computer, Groove

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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

  Phil Collins

  Heart, Dramatic, Happens

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

  Phil Collins

  Fighting, Together, Musician

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

  Phil Collins

  Drummer, I Can

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.

  Phil Collins

  Talking, People, Faces

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

  Phil Collins

  People, Facts, Fantastic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

  Phil Collins

  Country, Radio

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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

  Phil Collins

  Rocks, Scene, Currents

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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

  Phil Collins

  Rocks, Littles, Taste

  Source: www.theguardian.com