Quotes By Henry Rollins

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

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

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.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Most Americans are very cool people.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

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.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.