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" 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. "

Phil Collins

Work

Day

Down

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Phil Collins

Turn

Sing

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

Phil Collins

Started

Five

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

" I don't really listen to music. "

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

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

Phil Collins

Trying

Interesting

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

Phil Collins

Air

Going

" I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "