We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all… — 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
It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one….the re are lessons that you can't get out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more… — 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
Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as… — 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
I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going… — 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
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types… — 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
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