Henry Rollins Quotes
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don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
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I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
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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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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'
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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
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I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.