Phil Collins Quotes

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

Divorce is hard, and it takes a lot out of you.

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

When you're going through a divorce it's hard.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.

I'm a father; I'm a friend. I think I've got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that's not a good thing. It's a gift and a curse.

I was married for nine years before my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. Just as I'd watched my parents arguing and fighting, my son watched his parents arguing and fighting. It was like history repeating itself, and I felt terrible about him having to witness that.

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

Divorce alone is a very hard thing to go through, and having the public weigh in on it makes it worse.