Henry Rollins Quotes

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.