Henry Rollins Quotes
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
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I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.
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I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
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Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
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Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
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Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it.
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We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.
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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
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I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
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Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.
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Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.
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As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.
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If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.