A'Lelia Bundles Quotes

I'm a real hoarder.

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

My mom is a pack rat.

Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

I'm a collector of everything.

Imagine two years worth of stuff that you've been holding on to and everything just keeps piling up to the point where the pot just overflows. You know what happens when a pot overflows? It hits the side of the pan and it hits the fire and the fire just explodes.

My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

I got shoes literally all over my house.

Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you've got Muslims, you've got Jews, you've got Christians, you've got gays, you've got straights, you've got blacks, you've got whites. I think, 'How can I unite these people through song?'

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.

It takes all sorts of people to make the world.

My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.