Phil Collins Quotes
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.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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The world wants to like America.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.
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I don't like piano solos.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
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After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.
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Why are they calling her a Nazi? …Because modern secular Judaism wants to blame the holocaust on the Catholic Church. And it's a lie. And it's revisionism. And they've been working on that one for a while.
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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.
