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I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time
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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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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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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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Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
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Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
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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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When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
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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'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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I prefer black music in general.
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The world is in your hands, now use it.
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Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.
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Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
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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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I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.
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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.
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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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As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
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You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.
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