1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class. Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.

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