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" When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett. "
Phil Collins
Started
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" 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. "
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" Genesis fans are a religious group! "
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" When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. "
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" 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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" Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. "
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" You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Someone
Said
Now
" I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it. "
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Country
Appreciate
Audience
" Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting. "
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Wife
Tired
Three
" 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. "
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Know
Never
" 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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Want
Back
Kind
" 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.' "
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Just
Say
OK
" 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. "
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Find
People
I Am
" 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
" 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. "
Phil Collins
Star
Just
Living
" 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
" 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. "
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Result
Parents
Marriage
" 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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Meeting
Speak
Easy
" 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. "
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Think
World
Belong
" I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours. "
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Record
Finish
Going
" 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. "
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Time
I Can
" 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. "
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Brother
New
Writing
" I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me. "
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Trying
Interesting
Me
" 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
" 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. "
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Time
History
Way
" The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. "
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Detail
London
Day
" 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. "
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Up
Week
You