Quotes from Henry Rollins

America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.

Sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're not an idiot.

What is this bullshit? 97% caffeine free is 97% not my kind of thing.

Open your eyes. Your tears cut a trail. Your scars build a ladder that takes you to a place that you could not have gotten to any other way. Take a look around, remember every second, every breath, every choked scream. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength. Move on.

I'm sorry for not being sorry that I'm not sorry

All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.

Sometimes I feel like going down to the recycling plant. Turning myself in, jumping into the inferno, getting melted down, coming out again as someone else. Scrap metal man.

Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.

Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.

So easy to not say what you think To not do what you want Hard to take rejection Easy to hurt someone else and not know it Easy to make it hard

Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

I want to walk in the desert tonight. I want the wind to pass over me. I want to let the poison bleed through the soles of my feet into the desert floor. I want to starve the monster. I want to punish it with thoughts of clean night wind. The

There are records I play like when someone goes to the temple and spins the prayer wheel. Like The Crack by the Ruts, which is a great record anyway but sometimes I play it just so the room is filled with it, so the air can't say it doesn't exist, so the walls must acknowledge it.

For me, many albums are much more than a collection of songs. They're testaments to the courage to live above the minimum requirements of merely getting by.

I hate misogyny, and I find it everywhere.

I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a little number about a 7-Eleven in Asbury Park but write it in such a way that the entire U.S.A. can identify and slurp along with Bruce. Suck for the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-Eleven!

It's the person who tells you they listen to a lot of different music with an almost resigned sigh of futility that you want to pay attention to because they know that at best, they'll only hear a small part of a tiny drop in the great ocean of music.

Alone in cities all over the world. My secret happiness. No one recognizes me. I walk invisibly amongst the species. I wish this night would last forever or that I could live forever in it. It's all I need. In these dark hours, I command time and live life, it's not living me. Fanatic.

Reality has always bored me senseless. It drains my energy. Many years ago, I realized I was going to process life though a music purification system. It worked, too. When I listen to music, read or write about music, think about music, everything gets better. Music allows me to travel in my mind. We spend a good part of our lives in places we don't want to be in and with people we don't want to be around. I'm trying to keep all that to a minimum.

As you conform, depression can get you. Music is the literal soundtrack of emancipation from the depressing straightjacket of normality.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you?re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.

Life is death in slow motion.

One is the perfect number. The more things I do alone the better. In Miller's Black Spring he talks about the joy of being able to enjoy one's own company. I think there's nothing better than being a loner. I think it's the best way to be.