I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

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I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

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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.'

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I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

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I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

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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.

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In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

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I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

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