Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.

When I'm abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway.

Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.

My alphabet book at Duddingston Primary, Edinburgh, began traditionally with 'a is for apple,' but when it came to 'g,' it was 'g is for gas globe.' This was in the late Fifties; there hadn't been gas globes for decades. The textbook must have been 30 or 40 years old!

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

I bought quite a few houses and cars.

I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

I actually have only one Jackson! ESP makes all of my guitars now. But that Jackson was probably the last one I paid for, which is why I used it so much; I had to get my money's worth. That's why, for the longest time, it was in all of our photos.

People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?

I travel a lot; I go hunting for antiques.

If McLaren give me a car, that's fine, but I don't tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I bought a purse that was so grossly expensive, it's embarrassing. It cost $3,500, and it was by Louis Vuitton. The one thing about investing in something like that is that I get to pull it out years later, and it still looks cool and holds its value.

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

He is an old glove, but he looked like the old Glove.