Quotes By Henry Rollins

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.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

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.

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.

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

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my 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.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

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.

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.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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

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?