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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Phil Collins

Brother

New

Writing

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Phil Collins

Try

Children

" Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film. "

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

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Bigger

First

" 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. "

" 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

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

" Genesis fans are a religious group! "

" 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 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 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 actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me. "

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

Phil Collins

Trying

Interesting

" I prefer black music in general. "

" My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Honest

Moment

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Well

Never