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" 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. "

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" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Phil Collins

Started

Five

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Phil Collins

Bread

Hot

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

Phil Collins

Trying

Interesting

" I don't really listen to music. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Phil Collins

Try

Children

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "