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

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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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.
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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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They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
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I think I was the best drummer!
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Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.
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Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.
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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.
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This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.
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I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
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I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
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Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
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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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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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I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.
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Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
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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.
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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.
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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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When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.
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