Ed Rollins Quotes

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I beg young people to travel.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

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.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

The truth is often one's best shield.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.