Quotes By Henry Rollins

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'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.

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

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

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.

Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

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.

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 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'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.

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.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

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.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

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.