Henry Rollins
When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.Collection: Chance
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.Collection: Attitude
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.Collection: Sad
Without an education, you won't have a future.Collection: Education
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.Collection: Sympathy
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.Collection: Romantic
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.Collection: Trust
When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.Collection: Diet
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.Collection: Beauty
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.Collection: Great
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Space
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Anger
I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.Collection: Music
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.Collection: Alone
When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.Collection: Relationship
I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.Collection: Strength
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.Collection: Death
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.Collection: Patience
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.Collection: Space
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Inspirational
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.Collection: Romantic
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.Collection: Teen
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.Collection: Sad
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.Collection: Travel
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.Collection: Hope
To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.Collection: Amazing
I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.Collection: Cool
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.Collection: Truth
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.Collection: Sad
In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.Collection: Cool
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.Collection: Smile
Change is hard, but change is good.Collection: Change
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.Collection: Strength
A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.Collection: Travel
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.Collection: Society
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Equality
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.Collection: Teacher
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?Collection: Equality
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.Collection: Positive
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.Collection: Marriage
Texas is as odd as it is vast.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
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.
Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.