When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack -… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go...… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
