For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic… — 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
I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it… — 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
I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The past is the Jabberwock. Forget not the fallen, but beware the jaws and claws. With your vorpal blade going snicker-snack, kill… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I… — 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
There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought.… — 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
![“Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go…” quote by Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e3/henry-rollins-170_arena_punk-rock-gave-music-back-to-people-for_1340442.jpg)
