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" 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. "

Phil Collins

Father

Young

Doing

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" I prefer black music in general. "

" You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. "

" 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. "

" 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

" All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. "

" There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. "

" 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.' "

Phil Collins

Just

Say

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

" 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. "

" I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. "

" The world is in your hands, now use it. "

" It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. "

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

Phil Collins

Trying

Interesting

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Interesting

Touch

" 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

" If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't really listen to music. "

" 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. "

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

Phil Collins

Air

Going