Quotes from Peter Gabriel

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

In your eyes I am complete.

Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe, three dot.

Did you think that your feet had been bound By what gravity brings to the ground? Did you feel you were tricked By the future you picked? Well, come on down

Hey, I said, you can keep my things they've come to take me home

red rain is coming down red rain is pouring down red rain is coming down all over me I'm bathing in it red rain coming down red rain is coming down red rain is coming down all over me I'm begging you red rain coming down red rain coming down red rain coming down red rain coming down over me in the red red sea over me over me red rain

We've got to get in to get out.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebody's head

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go." -- Peter Gabriel about the meaning of the song "Solsbury Hill". From the book "Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel".