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" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "

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Henry Rollins

Think

People

Enough

" So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor. "

" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "

" I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. "

" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "

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

" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "

" Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? "

" Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. "

" To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer. "

" To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage. "

" I love to go on stage and sing. "

" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "

" August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. "

" Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. "

" In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would. "

" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "

" Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. "

" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "

" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "

" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

" To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence. "

Henry Rollins

Confidence

Time

" I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. "

" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "

" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "

Henry Rollins

Live

Music

" I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do. "

" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "

" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "

" I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. "

" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "