Henry Rollins Quotes
I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.
Quotes to Explore
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.
