Quotes About Memorabilia

I love the sport, I love getting other drivers' helmets and collecting some of the things that are special to me.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.

I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.

an institution is where they put Aunt Maggy when she began collecting Wheaties in a stamp album.

At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's.

A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.

The Masters is not greedy. You wanna buy a Masters souvenir logo shirt? Sure, let's go over to the nearest Ralph Lauren boutique. Oops, you can only purchase Masters memorabilia at the Masters, this one week of the year.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

A friend of mine back in 1989 did an illegal rave in Vauxhall. He got Keith Haring to come along and tag the side of the wall. My friend cut it out of the wall and he kept it under his bed for 20 years. Then a few years ago he asks me if I want to buy it... so I spent £12,000 on a Keith Haring.

A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.

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I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

gray pennies that had been made out of steel instead of copper during the Second World War.

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most baseball players I meet.

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.