Quotes from Henry Rollins

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

My motto is, 'Never quit.'

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.