1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book ‘Shock Doctrine.’ We make money on disaster.

I’d defend myself. But I don’t go around shoving people around; that’s not me at all – that’s for a cop. I’m not into that type of behavior at all.

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it’s like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That’s just civilization.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, ‘I have two moms – it’s cool.’ I don’t fear that at all.

If I hear, ‘Be afraid of Tehran,’ I’m like, ‘I’d better go to Tehran.’

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don’t end up like this man.

I’m usually busy – if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year – I’m usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it’s always a bad time.

Citizens United didn’t work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

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.