1- “The answer is inside your head; it’s easy to find if you take it logically”
2- “Love can make you do things that you never thought possible”
3- “I don’t really belong to that world and I don’t think anyone’s going to miss me. I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.”
4- “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.”
5- “I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.”
6- “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.”
7- “Just look over your shoulder…I’ll be there always.”
8- “Deep inside us we’re not that different at all.”
9- “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn”
10- “Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.”
11- “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. “
12- “You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.”
13- “When destiny calls you, you’ve got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you’ve got to move on”
14- “Genesis fans are a religious group! “
15- “I’m usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.”
16- “Everyones a hypercrit and if you don’t agree you’re a liar as well”
17- “Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That’s without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren’t quite like that.”
18- “Before you write – remember that every speech has something of ‘you’ in the writing. Don’t take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.”
19- “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?”
20- “The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key”
21- “Put your faith in what you most believe in.”
22- “Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers”
23- “There’s no magic for getting into the groove… just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. “
24- “I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.”
25- “God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles”
26- “I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night’s show. If there’s one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can’t eat later than four o’clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That’s my day.”
27- “I just don’t think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I’m fortunate that I make ends meet.”
28- “I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.”
29- “Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”
30- “I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.”
31- “I’m not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I’m a drummer that sings a bit.”
32- “We all have the same problems in relationships.”
33- “Perception determines insanity”
34- “People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song.”
35- “I don’t really listen to music. “
36- “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.
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37- “This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.”
38- “There were ‘big stars’ at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. “
39- “I prefer black music in general.”
40- “Why can’t they understand the way we feel? They just don’t trust what they can’t explain. I know we’re different, but deep inside us we’re not that different at all”
41- “As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.”
42- “You’ll find your place beside the ones you love”
43- “It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.”
44- “Things happen, but things happen and you follow… your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.”
45- “I’m glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we’re all the same, really.”
46- “Put your faith in what you most believe in.”
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