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That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Phil Collins

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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Philip David Charles Collins
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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.
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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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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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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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Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
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Put your faith in what you most believe in.
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I prefer black music in general.
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I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
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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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And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
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Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well
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My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
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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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Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
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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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I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
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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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They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
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There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
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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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