Quotes By Henry Rollins

I'm very boring.

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.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

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.

Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

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

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.