Quotes from Henry Rollins

Love beyond the damage.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

I love to go on stage and sing.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

I like the idea of someone else's love safely sealed in a song or a book.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.