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I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

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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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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Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
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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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You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.
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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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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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Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
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