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.'

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

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

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.