Occupation: Musician Birth: January 30, 1951
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines..
I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face….
I've been a long-distance father..
Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordin….
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 cou….
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class..
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 w….
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right..
I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you ….
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to..
I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a l….
I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life..
I prefer black music in general..
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..
You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons.
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music..
It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though on….
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 mach….
I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded ca….
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 o….
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.'.