Phil Collins
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis and as a solo artist. Between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, Collins had more US top 40 singles than any other...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 January 1951
CityLondon, England
This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.
I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
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...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
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.
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!
I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.
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.
You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.
Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.
I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.