Quotes from Henry Rollins

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

I'm very boring.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Some music really does suck!

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.