Henry Rollins » Quotes

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it's all you know how to do.

Whenever I get dumped (by a girlfriend), I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things

Nothing brings people together more than a mutual hatred.

Good question about the anger. It is perhaps something else; an awareness, a catalyst. All I know is, when everything seems to be going well, it feels like a scam!

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

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.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.