Quotes from Henry Rollins

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.