Quotes by Henry Rollins

About Henry Rollins:

Henry Rollins is an American musician, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, television and radio host, spoken word artist, comedian, and activist. Rollins hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW. He is also a regular columnist for LA Weekly and Rolling Stone Australia.
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

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I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

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Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

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The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

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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.

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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

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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.

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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

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'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

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When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

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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.

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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.

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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameHenry Rollins
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornFebruary 13, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Writer; Musician; Blogger; Songwriter; Human Rights Activist