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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.

Phil Collins

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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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...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
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There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?
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We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.
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