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
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.
I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits
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.
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers