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" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
Henry Rollins
Florida
Crazy
Place
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" I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. "
Henry Rollins
Tired
You
Sleep
" Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. "
Henry Rollins
Writing
Attitude
You
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
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Life
Great
" I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day. "
Henry Rollins
Every Day
Disappointed
Day
" Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. "
Henry Rollins
People
Voting
Apathy
" Sleep is for squares. "
Henry Rollins
Squares
Sleep
" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "
Henry Rollins
You
America
Better
" One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. "
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You
Criticism
Nice
" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
Henry Rollins
Take Care
Care
You
" I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. "
Henry Rollins
Band
Always
Own
" I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us. "
Henry Rollins
Easy
Planet
I Am
" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
Henry Rollins
Minute
Stage Fright
Remember
" We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. "
Henry Rollins
Distance
Safe
Why
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
People
Day
" Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well. "
Henry Rollins
Trying
Band
Will
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
She
Saturday
Hate
" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Because
Than
" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "
Henry Rollins
Literature
Understand
Art
" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "
Henry Rollins
Deep
Space
Self
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
Henry Rollins
Parents
Kids
Stop
" Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? "
Henry Rollins
Equality
Marriage
Care
" Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does. "
Henry Rollins
Look
Me
Good
" Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel. "
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Find
Need
Think
" I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place. "
Henry Rollins
Place
Still
About
" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
Henry Rollins
Topic
Guess
Person
" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "
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Keep
You
Why
" Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. "
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Writing
You
Men
" Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. "
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Care
Finding
Problems
" When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. "
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Lying
Think
Singing
" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "
Henry Rollins
Get
Stop
You