Henry Rollins Quotes

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

Sleep is for squares.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have much control over.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

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

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

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

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

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.

I beg young people to travel.

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