Quotes by Henry Rollins, American Musician

  • What I don’t want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?
  • There’s no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
  • I was a very repressed young person. I wasn’t good at school. I didn’t fit in.
  • If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
  • Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
  • Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
  • Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now – not remotely.
  • It’s why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
  • For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
  • I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
  • The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
  • My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
  • Football is at least as ‘gay’ as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film ‘300.’
  • I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
  • I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
  • It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
  • I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
  • I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It’s no joke, that history.
  • Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it’s all about. I love to perform.
  • I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.