Phil Collins Song Quotes & Sayings

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. — Phil Collins

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. — Phil Collins

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. — Gene Hackman

Put your faith in what you most believe in. — Phil Collins

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything. — Richard Powers

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud. — A.M. Homes

I wish I didn't love your stupid ass so much. — Santino Hassell

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. — Deborah Cox

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins ... you should be shot in the head. — Robert Clark

He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him. — Peter James

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks. — Rajneesh

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign - the starry eye. — Victor Hugo

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