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" I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical. "

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" The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk. "

Henry Rollins

Back

Father

Kid

" Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. "

" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "

" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "

" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "

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

" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "

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

" I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. "

" The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. "

" 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. "

" I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. "

" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "

" The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. "

Henry Rollins

Cute

Think

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

" I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. "

Henry Rollins

World

Think

" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "

" 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

" Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things. "

" I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. "

" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "

" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "

" 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. "

Henry Rollins

America

Trust

" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "

Henry Rollins

Try

Dark

" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "

" It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. "

Henry Rollins

Name

Enough

" 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? "

" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "

" Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. "