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" 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. "

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

" And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" '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. "

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

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

" I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't really listen to music. "

" The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. "

" 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. "

" There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. "

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

" 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. "