Henry Rollins Quotes

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.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

You can still function as a living ruin.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Some music really does suck!

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.