Quotes

“I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.” Henry Rollins

“I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.” Henry Rollins

“I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.” Henry Rollins

“I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.” Henry Rollins

“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.” Henry Rollins

“After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.” Henry Rollins

“And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.” Henry Rollins

“August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” Henry Rollins

“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.” Henry Rollins

“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.” Henry Rollins

“Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.” Henry Rollins

“I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.” Henry Rollins

“I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.” Henry Rollins

“I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.” Henry Rollins

“I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.” Henry Rollins

“I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.” Henry Rollins

“I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.” Henry Rollins

“I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.” Henry Rollins

“I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.” Henry Rollins

“I have not the smarts or patience for political office.” Henry Rollins

“I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.” Henry Rollins

“I love to go on stage and sing.” Henry Rollins

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

“I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.” Henry Rollins

“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.” Henry Rollins

“I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.” Henry Rollins

“I'm most comfortable on stage.” Henry Rollins

“I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.” Henry Rollins

“I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.” Henry Rollins

“If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.” Henry Rollins