Henry Rollins Quotes
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
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Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
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Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
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In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
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I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.
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I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.
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Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.
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The world's a better place since I chose music.
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I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.