Quotes from Peter Gabriel

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

I guess I don't mind so much being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.