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" One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. "

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" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "

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Person

" Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. "

Henry Rollins

People

Down

" We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. "

" In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground. "

" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "

" Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me. "

Henry Rollins

I Am

Music

" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "

Henry Rollins

Done

Thought

" 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. "

" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "

" I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. "

" 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. "

" To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need. "

" Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? "

" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "

" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "

" There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. "

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

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Audience

" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "

Henry Rollins

Know

You

" I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. "

Henry Rollins

Honey

Think

" Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. "

" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "

" There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. "

Henry Rollins

Village

People

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

" My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. "

Henry Rollins

Mother

Band

" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "

" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "

" If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. "