I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. I don’t want to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Is there anything here I can call my own? A feeling? A moment? Anything? Will there ever be a time when I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. — 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 Image
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Image
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
