Quotes About Obsession

Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

I've got a lot of '70s vintage. I'm a huge vintage junkie.

I was obsessed with vintage stuff, I was obsessed with sort of the old lady floral patterns and like Paisley stuff.

I'm always buying glasses and teacups. I have way too many to use, but I just love them, particularly anything vintage.

I love vinyl, man.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.

My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

I also pepper our sessions with reports of what I've discovered in my daily Google-stalking: the women Boyfriend must be dating (based on elaborate stories I create from social media Likes); how fabulous his life is without me (based on his Tweets about his business trip); how he isn't even sad about the breakup (because he photographs salads in restaurants—how can he even eat?).

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?