Phil Collins

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.'

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

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.