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" I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience. "

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" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "

Henry Rollins

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Look

Constitution

" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "

" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "

" I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire. "

" 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 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. "

" Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. "

Henry Rollins

Myself

Find

" 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. "

" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "

" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "

" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "

Henry Rollins

Never

Right

" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "

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

" I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. "

" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "

" 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've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. "

" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "

" 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'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. "

" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "

" I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. "

Henry Rollins

Walking

Stage

" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "

" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "

" I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. "

" Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. "

" 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. "

" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "

" Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent. "

" Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. "