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" 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. "

Henry Rollins

People

Back

Band

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Henry Rollins

Look

Good

" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "

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

" More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. "

Henry Rollins

Out

Journalism

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

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

Henry Rollins

Audience

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

" I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' "

" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "

" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "

" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "

Henry Rollins

Started

Food

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

" If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere. "

Henry Rollins

Out

" Without an education, you won't have a future. "

" My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. "

" 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

" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "

" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "

" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "

" I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. "

" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "

" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "

" The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. "

" 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. "