Henry Rollins Quotes
Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I like things simple.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.
