Black Flag Quotes
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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'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
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What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.
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While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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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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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
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I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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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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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.