Henry Rollins quotes

“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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

“Most Americans are very cool people.”

— Henry Rollins

“Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.”

— Henry Rollins

“Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.”

— Henry Rollins

“So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.”

— Henry Rollins

“The world's a better place since I chose music.”

— Henry Rollins

“There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.”

— Henry Rollins

“There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.”

— Henry Rollins

“To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.”

— Henry Rollins

“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins