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" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "

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" I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. "

Henry Rollins

Past

Know

Look

" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "

Henry Rollins

Book

Naked

" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "

" Most Americans are very cool people. "

" America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. "

" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "

" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "

" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "

" 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. "

" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "

" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "

" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "

" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "

Henry Rollins

War

Day

" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "

" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "

" If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. "

" You don't have to twist my arm to work. "

" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "

Henry Rollins

Started

Food

" If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism. "

" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "

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

" Change is hard, but change is good. "

" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "

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

" I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. "

" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "

" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "

" No one should die when they're 50. "

Henry Rollins

Die

Should

" In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground. "

" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "