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1 " Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth. "
― Phil Collins , Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
2 " People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song. "
3 " not being able to read music is absolutely liberating for me. It gives me a wider musical vocabulary. There "
4 " When he isn’t drumming with The Who, Moonie seems to like playing barman in La Chasse. I buy a round from him one night, and he gives me back more money than I’d handed over. Another reason to love him. "
5 " It takes some going to live next door to Keith Richards and be classed as the rowdy neighbor. No, I’m not proud. "
6 " And now I realize: I was fired. They didn’t disappear to watch football, or do drugs. They were getting rid of me. "
7 " Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does—he’s Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole. "
8 " Well, shall we play Phil the song first?” No one says that. "
9 " In the Air Tonight” is 99.9 percent sung spontaneously, the words dreamt up from out of nowhere "
10 " Because he has a flatmate, I have no option but to share Trevor’s bed. Terrified, I try to sleep, fitfully and fully dressed on top of the blankets. Presently, the fidgeting begins, and soon a hand is creeping over. I’m out of there quicker than you can say “paradiddle. "