Quotes By Henry Rollins

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

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

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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