Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings

It's Hard To Get People At A Record Company To Talk About Music. They Don't Seem To Want To Talk About Music, It's All Marketing, And That's Part Of A Record, You Gotta Get It Out There, People Have Gotta Hear It, But You Could Do It In A Way That's Not Repulsive.

You Can't Get Your Head Around Something If You're Yelling.

I'm A Good Authoritarian Figure; I Don't Know Why. 'Can You Be A Cop?' Sure. 'Can You Be A Marine?' Absolutely. Well, At Least In A Movie.

When You're Holding People's Attention, I Feel You Must Give Them High-quality Ingredients. They Deserve Nothing But Your Best. And If They Need Information, Get It, Cross-check It, And Try To Be Right. Do Not Waste Their Time; Do Not Enjoy The Ego Trip Of Being Onstage.

I Never Thought I Was Right For Tv Or That Tv Was Right For Me.

Barack Obama's Administration Responded To The Haitian Crisis Within 24 Hours. Here Comes The Soldiers, Here Comes The Food, Go Go Go... Rush Limbaugh Told His Multi-millions Of Listeners That Obama Only Did That To Gain Favour With Black People In America. This Is The Kind Of Idiocy That I Have To Deal With In My Country.

Maybe I'm Just A Psycho, And The Stage Is A Better Place To Go Than Either The Loony Bin Or Somewhere Else.

The First Van Halen Album Makes Johnny Rotten Out To Be What He Really Was And Still Is: A Hairdresser.

When I Read That Malaysia Airlines Flight Mh370 Had Disappeared - A State-of-the-art Boeing 777, Said To Be An Incredibly Safe Way To Travel - I Waited Patiently For The Chance To Learn What Happened.

You Might As Well Enjoy The Day - You Never Know When And How Painfully It Could All End.

Scott Asheton Was A Brilliant Drummer, A Natural Musician.

If You Think About It, Every Single Species Is Endangered. Homo Sapiens At The Front Of The Line, Mosquitoes And Lawyers At The Back.

Young African-american Males: Stop Existing. It Could Get You Killed.

America Is Off-the-hook Gay. I Will Not Go All Ann Coulter On You And Say, 'Our Gays Are Better Than Their Gays,' But As Far As Countries Go, We Are In-your-face Gay.

The Perpetrators Of The Actual Bad Stuff That Does Real And Lasting Harm To People, Like Leakage Of Industrial Chemicals Into Water Systems, Seem To Get Not So Much As A Second Glance; The Bloviation From Media Pundits And Think Tanks Creates False Problems That Waste Time And Energy Debunking.

It Is Very Difficult To Tell Americans That They Can't Do Something.

We Californians Can Watch The Weather Channel For Images Of Winter's Brutality Unleashed Upon Our Fellow Americans And Thank Our Lucky Stars We Don't Have To Contend With It.

Someone Like Ashlee Simpson, She Lip-synchs On 'Saturday Night Live,' Gets Totally Called Out La Milli Vanilli, And No One Really Cares That Much. It Doesn't Make Me Hate Ashlee; She's Just Taking Instructions.

Humans Are Pretty Crafty But Will Fold Quickly In Severe Cold.

Have You Ever Heard The Expression 'One Hot Mess?' I Think The Term Was Custom-made For The Mayor Of Toronto, Rob Ford.

When You Have To Work With And Exist Amongst Cynical, Burned-out Personnel On A Set, It Doesn't Matter What You're Shooting Or How Much You're Being Paid - It's Not Worth It.

It's One Thing To Buy A Copy Of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You Actually Have To Read It To Get Anything Out Of It.

As A Teen, I Heard The Second Velvet Underground Album, 'White Light/white Heat,' And It Was Too Much For My Limited Scope Of Appreciation. It Was Intense, But I Didn't Get It.

When A Band Becomes As Truly Iconic As The Velvet Underground, There Will Often Be A Box Set Released, Overburdened With Mediocre Material That Dilutes What Was Fine Left On Its Own.

I Have Been Restless For As Long As I Can Remember.

Being In New York Is An Almost Overwhelming Experience. While Washington, D.c., Is My Favorite American City, I Regard New York City As The Most Amazing City In The World. No Other Comes Close. It Is An Incredible, Inexhaustible Engine.

Music Keeps You Young. Having Music In Your Life Keeps You Open To Things.

My Unconditional Sure Thing Is That I Don't Have One.

Having An Identity Is One Thing. Being Born Into An Identity Is Quite A Different Matter.

As So Much Music Is Listened To Via Mp3 Download, Many Will Never Experience The Joy Of Analog Playback, And For Them, I Feel Sorry. They Are Missing Out.

The Fact Is, In The Minds Of Many, Trayvon Martin Received The Appropriate Punishment For A True Crime: He Was Black, Male And Dared To Walk Outside. In Life, Young Trayvon Was Just A Teenager; In Death, He Has Been Transformed Into A Scary, Lurking, Suspicious, Prone-to-violence Spook.

Airports In Major Cities, Like Lax, Are Trippy Environments. It Is At Once A National And International Gathering Of Those In Transition: The Euphoric, Emerging From Planes, Their Journey At An End, And The Determined, About To Depart.

I Have Lived In Public As A Somewhat Recognizable Person Since I Was A Teenager. Emails I Answer End Up Posted On Sites; Pictures Of Me And Someone I Just Met, Taken By A Cellphone, Literally Number In The Thousands And Are Easily Accessed.

Edward Snowden, Who Worked For Booz Allen Hamilton, Professes To Have Had Access To Whatever He Wanted To Know About Anyone's Anything. If He's Telling The Truth, Why Does He Have Such Permeability Without Any Government Oversight? Is That Ok With You?

No Matter How Rough Things Can Be At Times, Many Americans Are Optimistic And On The Move.

My Mother, A Very Eclectic Listener, Had The First Doors Album And Gave It To Me When I Expressed Interest In The Band. It Was One Of The First Records I Ever Had. As The Years Passed, The Babysitters Who Used To Look After Me Would Bring Their Doors Albums To The Apartment, And That's How I Got To Hear Their Later Work.

In Many Ways, America Is On The Receiving End Of A Pendulum That Has Been Swung With Great Force, And For A Long Time, Outward Into The World. The Impact Is A Wake-up Call On Every Level.

If It's A Man's World, As They Say, Then Men, Your World Is A Poorly Run Carnage Fest.

I Think, To A Great Degree, We Humans Still Divide Ourselves Into Two Species, Even Though We Are Monotypic. There Are Males And Females. We See Them As Different And Not Equal.

Early Spring Is The Time For Vigorous Change, A Preparation For The Heat-driven Oppression That Is To Come.

Watching A Documentary With People Hacking Their Way Through Some Polar Wasteland Is Merely A Visual. Actually Trying To Deal With Cold That Can Literally Kill You Is Quite A Different Thing.

With Age, Life Becomes Complex And Difficult, Often Fraught With Risk On Several Levels, From The Practical To The Fiscal.

Those Who Seek To Profit By Division Don't Stand A Chance.

I Believe That Contentment Or Any Sustained Period Of Joy That Doesn't Inspire Thought That Leads To Action Almost Immediately Is Useless.

It Is Amazing To Hear Grown-up People Rationalize Homophobia And Discrimination. The Lengths They Go To Trying To Prove Their Points Take Reason To Its Breaking Point.

The Gop Grows More And More Unpopular With Female Voters Seemingly Every Time One Of Its Leaders Gets In Front Of A Microphone. Misogynist Is As Misogynist Does. The Gop And Its Bloviating Pundits Don't Like Women And They Are Unable To Hide It, Nor Do They Seem To Make Much Attempt To Do So.

I Consider Any Gun That Can Chamber A Round And Send A Projectile Down Its Barrel At A High Rate Of Speed Into My Body - Causing Me Injury Or Death - To Be An Assault Weapon.

One Of The Odd Enjoyments In Life Is To Be Alone In A Room Full Of People. To Have Them There As Unknowing Human Filler In Your Wide Shot.

I Always Found The Chicago Audience To Be A Smart, Fast-moving, Violent And Cheerful Lot, And It's Always Good To Be Back.

America Is A Country Born From Semi-mythologized Blood, Glory And Acts Of Selfless Patriotic Sacrifice.