Henry Rollins Quotes

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.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.