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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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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
Actor
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Philip David Charles Collins
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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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Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.
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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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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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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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My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
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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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The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
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The answer is inside your head it's easy to find if you take it logically.
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Put your faith in what you most believe in.
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I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.
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I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
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