Rolling Stone has an interview with Mr. Collins and it is quite hard to hear this from one of my musical idols. I don't know what kind of life a person of such stature could live but I could always feel in his music that he was depressed in some way.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/10/phil.collins.rstone/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/10/phil.collins.rstone/index.html