We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,'… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and… — 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
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them,… — 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
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere… — 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
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. — 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
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
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre… — 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
Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away… — 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
