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" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "

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" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "

Henry Rollins

Think

Lift

Own

" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "

Henry Rollins

Thought

Young

" The world's a better place since I chose music. "

" Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. "

" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "

Henry Rollins

Learn

" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "

" Harmony is boring. "

Henry Rollins

Boring

Harmony

" What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. "

" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "

" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "

" I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. "

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

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

" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "

" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "

" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "

" Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. "

" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "

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

" To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all. "

" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "

" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "

" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "

Henry Rollins

Standards

" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "

" 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

" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "

Henry Rollins

Absurdity

" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "

Henry Rollins

Always

Jazz

" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "

Henry Rollins

Idea

Performer

" I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. "