Quotes from Henry Rollins

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.