1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

Love heals scars love left

I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.