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" 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. "

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" Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well. "

Henry Rollins

Trying

Band

Will

" 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

" 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. "

" Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front. "

" Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. "

" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "

" For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else. "

" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "

" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "

Henry Rollins

Standards

" 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. "

" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "

" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "

" I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. "

" Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does. "

Henry Rollins

Look

Good

" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "

" 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. "

" If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right? "

" That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. "

" 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. "

" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "

" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "

" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "

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

" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "

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

" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "

" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "

" One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. "

" I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. "

" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "