Collins, who’s back in the spotlight with his newly released autobiography, revealed that he’s “working out a way to make a show special” when he performs live again in 2017.
He also wouldn’t rule out a Genesis reunion. “Writing the book reminded me how close we were. We're still great pals. Anything can happen, really," he told Rolling Stones magazine during a flying visit to New York to promote his memoir, ‘Not Dead Yet’.
"I just don't want to suddenly take the brakes off and start flying off and doing things. I want to do things carefully and think about the consequences.”
Collins also revealed that he’s now back playing drums again following a serious back-injury almost a decade ago.
“It happened gradually on the Genesis reunion tour in 2007," he said about the back injury. "Then I played with Clapton at Albert Hall for one song, and I had that feeling of ‘This isn't happening’."
The back injury was, he adds, difficult to come to terms with. He explained: "That kind of scared me. The one thing I could rely on in life was that I could sit down at the drums and it would sound good, and suddenly I couldn't pull it together.
“Now, I've got a drum kit in my garage and I've got into a routine of practicing. I'm trying to get my hands to feel natural again when I hold a pair of sticks. I've got some comeback shows booked for next year, and we'll see what happens.”
Phil also opened up about knocking booze on the head for a three-year period because he feared that he was going to drink himself into an early grave. “I didn't know I was close to dying. If I had carried on drinking, my organs would have started shutting down,” he candidly told Rolling Stones magazine.
"I also didn't know the effect it was having on my kids. I was falling down because I was mixing alcohol with [pain] medication.
“One time I was watching TV and I got up to give my sons a hug. I fell down and my teeth made two marks in the tiles. There was lots of blood. I remember Matthew saying to their nanny, ‘Daddy's fallen over!’ Putting an eight-year-old through that, it gives me chills.
"By the time I stopped, my family disintegrated. Within six months, they'd moved away.”
But there was a happy ending for Collins who is now back living with his family.
“Usually when there's divorce, you fall into ‘I don't ever want to see you again’, that kind of thing. Orianne and I stayed in touch, very closely. I called the boys pretty much every day. It can be very difficult to forgive. But in our situation, we both felt we made a mistake. Our kids are obviously over the moon,” he concluded.