Quotes from Henry Rollins

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

Life is death in slow motion.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.