Phil collins

When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

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.'

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.