1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

It’s not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can’t imagine that they will ever be gone.

When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama – you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq – I don’t understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there’s a race problem.

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they’re poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn’t mean it’s any good but I like it. The joke is that “all good singers like the sound of their own voice” so we’ll go with that.

I’m not a singer. If you’ve heard any of my records, that’s not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I’ve got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there’s no skill going on there. It’s more just intuitiveness.

For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I’ve always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that’s attracted me as far as live.

There’s always going to be a need for activism; there’s always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, ‘We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.’

I have to keep moving I don’t want to think I’m going to work all day today I don’t want to stop Don’t want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I’m a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life.