Ed Rollins Quotes

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

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.'

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

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.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

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.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

I love to go on stage and sing.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.