Quotes By Mike Rutherford

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.