English - Musician | January 30, 1951 -
I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
Phil Collins
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Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
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It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
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I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.
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All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
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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'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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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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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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