I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
PHIL COLLINSIt’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
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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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You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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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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As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
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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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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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They’re the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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I’d love to work with Disney again.
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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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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.
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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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It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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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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