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" 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. "

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Young

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

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Five

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

" 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. "

" 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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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

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

" It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. "

" I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before. "

" 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. "

" It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me. "

" 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

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Say

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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Past

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

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Going

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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Back

" 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. "