Breaking up

From This American Life: On Break Ups

Starlee Kine

Do you think he'll come back?

Phil Collins

[LAUGHS] I hope so, because you obviously do feel a lot for him.

Starlee Kine

Do you think I'll ever stop feeling bad, like I am now?

Phil Collins

Well, but you kind of like feeling bad, don't you?

Starlee Kine

Oh, yeah. Well, it's something--

Phil Collins

I don't think you really want to get over it. I think you're kind of enjoying it. So that's kind of a dilemma you have to sort out.

Starlee Kine

You really have me pegged. It feels like important or big or something. Like it feels like I felt really-- I felt so much for him when I was with him. And the only way to still feel like that strongly about something is to not let it go. I would love to be the person who was just like, he meant nothing to me. But instead, I'm the person who's like, OK, I'm going to write a break-up song and play it over the airwaves. And I've like lost all my cool.

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