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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. "

" And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer. "

" We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. "

" I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it. "

" 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. "

" It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens. "

" I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic. "

" 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. "

" I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't really listen to music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores. "

" 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. "

" To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time. "

" If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination. "

" Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. "

" I prefer black music in general. "

" 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. "