1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

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.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.