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The world is in your hands, now use it.
Phil Collins
Now
World
I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
Phil Collins
Public
Separation
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Phil Collins
Months
Painting
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Phil Collins
Day
Detail
London
Project
It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
Phil Collins
Language
Meeting
Months
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.
Phil Collins
Time
Projects
Want
'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins
Time
Road
Songs
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
Phil Collins
Europe
Pretty
When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.
Phil Collins
Food
Love
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.
Phil Collins
Time
America
End
Europe
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins
Work
Day
English
Language
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.
Phil Collins
Time
No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.
Phil Collins
Manager
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.
Phil Collins
Time
Thought
Disappointment
Song
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
Phil Collins
First
Song