Quotes About Obsession

Marmite is my little English touch, and I'm crazy for chutneys.

There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.

I think I'm obsessed with accessibility which is why, when I'm touring, I want to play all ages shows.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models.

My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.

Guys never really get over their toys.

Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it's like making a film - it's the perfect length of time to tell a story.

There's something fascinating about record collector minds, hoards of quotes shared and dealt like cards, lines traded, images bought.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.