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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "