1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.