Henry Rollins Quotes

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

No one should die when they're 50.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Canadians are often a friendly bunch.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.