Rolling Stone: Phil Collins admits suicidal thoughtsBy Andy Greene, RollingStone.com
November 10, 2010 11:23 p.m. EST
Phil Collins says he has little desire to create more music beyond his new disc of Motown covers, Going Back.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Singer Phil Collins says he believes that he may have lived past lives
His time is now spent working on his gigantic collection of artifacts from the Alamo
Neck injury has left him unable to hold drum sticks, sign his signature
"I wouldn't blow my head off," Collins says. "I'd overdose or do something"
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(Rolling Stone) -- In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands in the digital archives this Friday, Phil Collins says he believes that he may have lived past lives -- and that he's contemplated suicide.
"I sometimes think I'm going to write this Phil Collins character out of the story," the singer says. "Phil Collins will just disappear or be murdered in some hotel bedroom, and people will say, 'What happened to Phil?' And the answer will be, 'He got murdered, but, yeah, anyway, let's carry on.' That kind of thing."
"I wouldn't blow my head off," he says. "I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the sixties left a note saying,'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that."
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