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"I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted."

"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing."

"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."

"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."

"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."

"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

"I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about."
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"I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before."

"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.'"

"'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."

"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."

"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."

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