Quotes By Henry Rollins

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

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.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Some music really does suck!

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.