My MISSION is not to forbid FRENCH ART. If the QUALITY is there, I BUY; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

You aren't WEALTHY until you have SOMETHING MONEY can't BUY.

A house without books is LIKE a room without windows. No MAN has a RIGHT to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the MEANS to buy them.

I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West VILLAGE for vinyl, but RECORD STORES are hard to come by these days. I almost don't EVEN USE iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

My personal STYLE really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to ACTUALLY buy my own damn CLOTHES. For so LONG, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.

Everybody loves to spend MONEY at LEAST some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can BUY with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the PAIN of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

It isn't as important to BUY as CHEAP as POSSIBLE as it is to buy at the right time.

Mother ALWAYS tries to buy things for a REASONABLE price. I was NEVER allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's ROOTED in the CHINESE mentality. We are very thrifty.

I THINK it's RIDICULOUS to try to SELL records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

If you RENT, the rent goes up EVERY YEAR. But if you buy a 30-year MORTGAGE, the cost is fixed.