Henry Rollins Quotes
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.
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I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
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Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
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We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
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There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.
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Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
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It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
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There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
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I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
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Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.