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Collins was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Madeleine ( née Robertson ) and Cyrus S. Collins, an airline executive.

Collins is the great-great-grandson of General James Baird Weaver, the 1880 Greenback Party presidential candidate and the 1892 Populist Party (" People's Party ") candidate for president.

Collins was raised with his two older brothers in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and attended Amherst College, graduating cum laude.

He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock and roll bands at Amherst, including Tambourine Charlie & The Four Flat Tires, The Naugahyde Revolution ( with Jim Steinman, then a fellow student, on keyboards ), and The Flower & Vegetable Show ( he has played his guitar on 7th Heaven, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and in the 2007 romantic comedy Because I Said So ).