Henry Rollins Quotes

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

I'm a professional food eater.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

Change is hard, but change is good.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.