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" 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. "

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" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "

Henry Rollins

Shot

Alone

Room

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

" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "

" 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

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

" It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face. "

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

" It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive. "

" Harmony is boring. "

Henry Rollins

Boring

Harmony

" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "

" Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. "

" I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious. "

" 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. "

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

" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "

Henry Rollins

Audience

" 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

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

" I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. "

" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "

" Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. "

" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "

" When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. "

" 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. "

Henry Rollins

Giving

Feel

" I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with. "

" 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. "

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