I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've SINCE continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a NEW house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to PUT all these records, which is a NIGHTMARE for the architect.

My parents are music fans, even though NEITHER of them PLAY an INSTRUMENT. I was exposed to their record collection, so I LOVE EVERYTHING from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

Many critics, when trying to PRAISE a short-STORY collection, will say that it has the heft and SCOPE of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the RICH texture and eloquent DETAIL of a good story collection.

As an ARTIST, you dream about accumulating enough SUCCESSFUL music to someday do just one greatest-HITS album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is BEYOND belief.

SOCIETY is completely unreasonable. People WANT everything and want to PAY for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being RAISED, but if their garbage collection is a day late they SCREAM and yell.

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases CONFIDENCE, but it also blurs dissenting VIEWS until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming DATA collection into BIAS confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

I have a COLLECTION of SuperSoakers. I have managed to KEEP most of them.

I WANTED to CREATE a bridal collection that is both a natural extension of the mainline eveningwear but, at the same TIME, reflects the opulence of such an IMPORTANT celebratory event.

My wife is Mexican, and she's REALLY INFLUENCED me: She's GOT an IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of Mexican music.

I have a COLLECTION of ukuleles. I MEANT to GRADUATE to the GUITAR, but I NEVER did.

A book is not necessarily MADE of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that WORDS printed on paper and bound between cloth COVERS will someday be obsolete. But if and when that DAY comes, there will still be a thing called BOOKS.

My PARENTS' record COLLECTION was the MUSIC I was HEARING as LONG as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

My step dad's from NIGERIA, so he listened to Highlife music from AFRICA. He was also into hip-hop and R&B, and from that, I started to listen to music from his collection and liking it, developing my own TASTE.

When I do my COLLECTION, it is in a WAY my own STORY.

'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to DESCRIBE what I've written without sounding delusional or BORING, so I'll just say they are stories about GROWING up and the pleasures and agonies of having a FAMILY, a body, and a HOME.