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'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 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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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,And long enough to see some change.
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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.
