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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
Henry Rollins
Body
Clean
Blood
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" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "
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Idea
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" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "
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City
Home
Great
" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
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Always
Man
Run
" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "
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Box
Band
Left
" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "
Henry Rollins
Did
Need
Martin
" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "
Henry Rollins
Teacher
Help
Friend
" Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. "
Henry Rollins
Bands
Musicians
Good
" Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. "
Henry Rollins
Saying
Imagine
Fear
" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "
Henry Rollins
Deep
Space
Self
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know. "
Henry Rollins
Know
Nothing
Job
" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "
Henry Rollins
My Life
Classmates
Fear
" I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none. "
Henry Rollins
Lot
Man
Ray
" The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Like
More
" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
Henry Rollins
Topic
Guess
Person
" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "
Henry Rollins
You
Anything
Buy
" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "
Henry Rollins
You
Equality
Think
" One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. "
Henry Rollins
Away
Time
Teeth
" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "
Henry Rollins
Business
Rock
Nation
" Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. "
Henry Rollins
People
Cold
Hacking
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
Henry Rollins
Travel
People
Like
" If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Myself
Speak
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
America
Every Day
Love
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Things
Angry
Now
" I'm most comfortable on stage. "
Henry Rollins
Stage
Comfortable
Most
" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
Henry Rollins
Want
You
Know
" I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. "
Henry Rollins
Travel
Backpack
Bunch
" I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed. "
Henry Rollins
End
Up
Someone
" When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up. "
Henry Rollins
Know
Feeling
Africa
" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "
Henry Rollins
Needs
Understanding
Proven