Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings

I Take The Work Seriously, Just Not Myself In It.

I Was A Very Repressed Young Person. I Wasn't Good At School. I Didn't Fit In.

After I Left D.c. To Join Black Flag, I Felt I Was In A Band.

The Scarcity Of The Music Not Only Makes The Music Itself Enjoyable But It Also Gives The Collector A Strange Sense Of Superiority.

When People Hold You In High Esteem, It's Very Delicate Relationship. When They Meet You They're Putting All Their Chips Up. It's Make Or Break.

I Think A Lot Of Americans Have Never Been All That Hungry. They've Never Had War On Their Shore, And They've Never Suffered The Way Other Cultures Have Suffered. I'm Not Saying We Should Go Suffer. Not At All. I'm Saying We Should Be More Aware Of How Other Cultures Exist.

Ramones Music Has A Pavlovian Effect On Me - The Song Starts, And The World Blurs Around The Sound.

I Find It Takes A Lot Of Strength To Endure Myself.

Rarely Do I Do Film Press Because I'm So Low On The Food Chain Of The Movie, And For Me It's Just This Thing I Did For Four Weeks Before The Next Tour Started.

The Best Compliment I Get Every Year Is That A Band Will Write Me And Say, 'We Were Just On Tour, And We Had People Coming To Our Show Saying They Had Never Heard Us Before They Heard Us On Your Show.'

You Must Never Lower Yourself To Being A Person You Don't Like.

Without An Education, You Won't Have A Future.

A Lot Of Americans Don't Have A Passport, Never Will Have A Passport. Not Only Will They Not Travel, They Don't Want To Travel.

I Think Naomi Klein Was Very Astute With Her Book 'Shock Doctrine.' We Make Money On Disaster.

I'm Terrified Of Motorcycles. I've Been On One A Couple Of Times. I Did Not Like It.

To See Change In Your Own Area Code Is Very Powerful. There's A Little Orphanage Down The Street From My Company, And We Donate $1 From The Sale Of Each Cd We Sell To The Orphanage.

The Bad Seeds Are A Band I Will Travel A Great Distance To See Whenever Possible.

I Get Along With Australians Really Well. Everyone's Usually Really Cool, And It's Always A Drag To Leave.

I Think That Humans Have A Huge Capacity To Carry Pain And Sadness. There Are Things That Haunt Us Our Entire Lives; We Are Unable To Let Them Go. The Good Times Seem Almost Effervescent And Dreamlike In Comparison With The Times That Didn't Go So Well.

I Contribute A Large Amount Of Money To The Southern Poverty Law Center, So I'm On Their Mailing List For All Their Klan Watch Newsletters. I'm Very Well Aware Of White Power Movements In America.

When I See The Hatred Exacted At Mr. Obama - You Know, He Lowered Your Taxes, Killed Your Number One Bad Guy And Got Your Guys Out Of Iraq - I Don't Understand Why He Seems To Inflame People So Much. You Know, Unless, Unless There's A Race Problem.

I Have Healthy Disagreements With Political Parties I'm Not Aligned With, But I Don't Think It Should Be To The Point Where We're Cursing And Trying To Strangle Each Other.

Young, Gay And Stuck In Arkansas? Sounds Like A Horror Flick.

The Arts In America Exist In Spite Of America, Not Because Of America.

I'm A Big Fan Of The American Tapes Label. But That's Very Hard To Keep A Grip On That Because You Blink Your Eyes And They've Released Three Records, All Of Which Are Limited Edition, All Sold At One Show. So You Have To Follow In Drips And Drops On Ebay, Which I Do.

After I Wrapped 'Sons Of Anarchy,' I Traveled By Myself For Ten Weeks. I Started In Jordan And Finished In Mali, In Timbuktu.

More And More, Journalism Seems To Have Hopped Out Of Truth's Pocket And Crept Into Another.

'Smile' Is Perhaps The Beach Boys' Most Legendary Album. It Was Recorded In 1966 And 1967 But Only Saw A Formal Release In 2011. That's A Long Time To Wait For What Was Said To Be Brian Wilson's Masterpiece.

We Spend Millions Of Dollars To Remove Pain From Our Lives. It's Why So Many People Get Hooked On Painkillers. The Body Becomes Addicted To Painlessness. That Tells You A Lot.

Spring And Fall, Those Are Very Inspiring Times Of The Year For Me.

We Are Misery-making Machines! Homo Sapiens Has Perfected The Art Of Causing Suffering. Pain Is Humankind's Collective Gdp.

My Understanding Of First-degree Murder Is That Premeditation Needs To Be Proven.

I Have Been An Xl Fan Of Devo Since I Was In High School In The 1970s. Their Records Only Sound Better With Time.

To Our Enemies All Over The World Who Plan America's Demise, Please Take My Advice. Give Up Now. No Matter What, You Will Lose. You Will Lose It All.

Castle Face Records, Run By The Oh Sees Main Man, Johnny Dwyer Is Always Worth Checking In With.

Canadians Are Often A Friendly Bunch.

I Am Afforded A Bit Of Easy Wonderment In Relative Comfort As To How Humans Have Lasted So Long. Climate- And Geography-wise, The Planet Seems To Have Little Use For Us.

For The Last 30-plus Years, I Have Been Doing One Long, Uninterrupted Improv.

I Think It Is Incumbent On Anyone Who Can To Lift Human Dignity To The Highest Possible Levels, Maintaining One's Own And Helping To Raise That Of Others.

Like A Lot Of Inwardly Drawn Young People, I Spent A Lot Of Time In Libraries. At My High School, I Often Spent My Lunch Breaks There.

It's Not Lost On Me That Everyone Dies, But Some People Have A Kind Of Immortality About Them, And You Can't Imagine That They Will Ever Be Gone.

In The Late Summer Of 1986, The Band I Had Been In For Five Years Stopped Playing. Suddenly, I Was On My Own. This New State Of Bandlessness Was, At First, Traumatic. When Your Group Breaks Up, A Lot Of Broken Parts Hit The Ground.

To Get A Human Through A Life, Lives Of Broken Bones, Knock-me-over-with-a-feather Susceptibility To Myriad Viruses, And Whatever Else Might Befall Someone Will Cost Money.

Please Don't Think That I Am One Of Those Squishy Types Who Can't Handle Reality. I Have Plenty Of Real-world Things To Deal With All The Time. I Have Deadlines, Meetings, I Answer The Phone, I Get Turned Down, I Wait In Lines And Am Forced To Pass For Normal All The Time.

There Is A Lot To Say About What Bikini Kill And Other 'Riot Grrrl' Bands Were Able To Achieve When They First Set Out. They Were Not Some Momentary, Convulsive, Creative Spasm Of Independent Music. There Was A Very Real, Relevant Point Of View Being Expressed.

I Have Always Identified With Joan Didion's Depiction Of Los Angeles And Southern California, Ever Since Reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' And 'The White Album.'

Every Single Record I Have Is A Fossil.

Harmony Is Boring.

Think About It: No Matter Who You Are, The Past Plays A Large Part In Your Life. I Am All About Living In The Present As Best As I Can. Try As I Might, There Is Only So Much I Am Able To Achieve On This Front.

If There Is One Set Of Laws, One Constitution For Every Citizen, Its Protections Hopefully Applied Equally To All, Then Why Do The Results Seem To Differ So Radically? What Do You Call That? Look Around - You're Living In It.