Quotes By Henry Rollins

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

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

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.