J. D. Souther Quotes

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

I have talked about this before, I have always been bad at saving memorabilia.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

I guess I always have been a collector.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

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

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

I've always been a collector at heart.

I saved everything, all my gear over the years: my trench coats and stuff that I have saved. It is all packed away nicely and neatly in vacuum-sealed bags and all that stuff.

Men fill up their heads and drawers and sheds with stuff from their teenage years.

I'm the kind of person who will pull sheets out of magazines and print materials and put them in a book. That's me; I do that.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

Collecting is my passion.

If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.