The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
PHIL COLLINSOften 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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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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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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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.
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I’d love to work with Disney again.
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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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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
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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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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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God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
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Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don’t read Lord of the Rings when they’re 30 even though they did at 15.
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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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It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
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To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.
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