Henry Rollins Quotes
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I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
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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, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself - mentally, physically
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I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.
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If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
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When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.
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America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.
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For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.
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I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
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I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.
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I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
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I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.