Quotes By Henry Rollins

Most Americans are very cool people.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

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

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

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

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Some music really does suck!

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

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.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

I love to go on stage and sing.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.