Quotes from Henry Rollins

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

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.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

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.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Harmony is boring.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.