Henry Rollins Quotes

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

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

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.

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

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

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I beg young people to travel.

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?

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

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

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.

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

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

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.'

Guns are part of the American identity.

You can find me in the frozen mood section.

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.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

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.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

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

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

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

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

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.

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.

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.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.