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" Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting. "

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" That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime. "

Phil Collins

Happen

Know

Never

" No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager. "

Phil Collins

Drink

Back

" I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. "

" When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end. "

" The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar. "

" Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that. "

" I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. "

Phil Collins

Bread

Hot

" I don't really listen to music. "

" That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.' "

Phil Collins

Air

Going

" I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me. "

Phil Collins

Talk

Past

" You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing. "

" I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before. "

" On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say. "

" When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. "

" I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts. "

Phil Collins

Week

You

" I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me. "

" I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt. "

" Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock. "

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

" Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us. "

" When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett. "

Phil Collins

Started

Five

" I prefer black music in general. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me. "

Phil Collins

Trying

Interesting

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Turn

Sing

" 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. "

" Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. "

" I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back. "

" I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day. "