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" We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. "
Henry Rollins
Down
People
Science
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" 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
Go
Out
Me
" Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things. "
Henry Rollins
Young
Open
You
" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
Henry Rollins
Lots
Music
Speaking
" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "
Henry Rollins
Man
Myself
People
" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "
Henry Rollins
People
Want
Standing
" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "
Henry Rollins
Been
Director
Favorite
" 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
" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "
Henry Rollins
High School
Better
School
" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "
Henry Rollins
Only
Brutality
Deliver
" Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment. "
Henry Rollins
Enough
Okay
Long
" As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Experience
Feel
" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "
Henry Rollins
Home
Weird
Life
" Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up. "
Henry Rollins
Day
Try
Ready
" I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box. "
Henry Rollins
Thinking
Brave
Capitalism
" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "
Henry Rollins
Politicians
Talk
Why
" Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? "
Henry Rollins
You
Government
Know
" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "
Henry Rollins
Path
Good
Independent
" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
Henry Rollins
Take Care
Care
You
" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "
Henry Rollins
You
Hate
Focus
" 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
" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
Henry Rollins
Like
See
You
" If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. "
Henry Rollins
Doctor
Best
More
" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
Henry Rollins
New
Jersey
Concern
" One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. "
Henry Rollins
Small
World
You
" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
Henry Rollins
Been
Years
History
" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "
Henry Rollins
Ghost
Wander
Summer
" 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
" America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. "
Henry Rollins
Saddam Hussein
America
He
" I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "
Henry Rollins
Seriously
Work
Myself
" We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it. "
Henry Rollins
Winter
Weather
Watch