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" I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies. "
Phil Collins
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Year
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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. "
Phil Collins
Result
Parents
Marriage
" 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. "
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Star
Just
Living
" 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. "
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More
Over
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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Better
Day
Make A Difference
" 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. "
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Story
You
Thought
" 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. "
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Playing
Luck
Living
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Day
Listening
Voice
" There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. "
Phil Collins
Music
Sometimes
Away
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Political
America
Texas
" We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. "
Phil Collins
Europe
Stayed
Some
" I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. "
Phil Collins
Bit
Who
Singer
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Writing
I Am
Myself
" 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
Go
" 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
" Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock. "
Phil Collins
Time
Way
Rock
" I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it. "
Phil Collins
Country
Appreciate
Audience
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Just
Four
Got
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Someone
Said
Now
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Live
American
Style
" 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
Me
" 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
Me
" 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
Up
Sing
" I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. "
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Early
Much
First
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Find
People
I Am
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Time
Great
End
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Think
World
Belong
" 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
" The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. "
Phil Collins
Detail
London
Day
" 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. "
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