Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.”

— Henry Rollins

152. “I don’t have many friends so the phone doesn’t ring and no one’s asking me to go out and go dancing with them.”

— Henry Rollins

153. “There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.”

— Henry Rollins

154. “My love runs deeper than the wounds.”

— Henry Rollins

155. “August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”

— Henry Rollins

156. “I don’t try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn’t try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can’t do that to me.”

— Henry Rollins

157. “In blues music, there’s a lot of borrowing, so it’s often difficult to identify the originator of a song.”

— Henry Rollins

158. “I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”

— Henry Rollins

159. “I didn’t want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn’t want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.”

— Henry Rollins

160. “I have to keep moving I don’t want to think I’m going to work all day today I don’t want to stop Don’t want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I’m a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life.”

— Henry Rollins

161. “Break from self rejection, try some introspection.”

— Henry Rollins

162. “Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.”

— Henry Rollins

163. “I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.”

— Henry Rollins

164. “There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.”

— Henry Rollins

165. “I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.”

— Henry Rollins

166. “There’s a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko’s.”

— Henry Rollins

167. “It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.”

— Henry Rollins

168. “Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.”

— Henry Rollins

169. “I don’t really have any women in my life, actually those two – the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.”

— Henry Rollins

170. “One person’s roar is another’s whine, just as one person’s music is another’s unendurable noise.”

— Henry Rollins

171. “You can’t right the wrongs because you’ll never understand the cause and you’ll be too busy dodging the effect.”

— Henry Rollins

172. “I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn’t inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.”

— Henry Rollins

173. “I’m not artistic nor am I all that creative.”

— Henry Rollins

174. “No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.”

— Henry Rollins

175. “I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I’m on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I’m very well aware of White Power movements in America.”

— Henry Rollins

176. “I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.”

— Henry Rollins

177. “The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.”

— Henry Rollins

178. “If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don’t say you’re worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America’s concern, America’s operational presence there would be much different.”

— Henry Rollins

179. “Music to me is mankind’s greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.”

— Henry Rollins

180. “But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn’t do it, it can’t be done.”

— Henry Rollins

181. “Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I’m ready to serve my time.”

— Henry Rollins

182. “Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.”

— Henry Rollins

183. “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

184. “We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP.”

— Henry Rollins

185. “Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.”

— Henry Rollins

186. “We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It’s why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.”

— Henry Rollins

187. “I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”

— Henry Rollins

188. “You can say, “Well, I have a question,” and someone will say, “Oh, so you hate America.” And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.”

— Henry Rollins

189. “You don’t have to twist my arm to work.”

— Henry Rollins

190. “Can you imagine telling a woman she can’t vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.”

— Henry Rollins

191. “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.”

— Henry Rollins

192. “I have no pride about anything I have done. It’s just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.”

— Henry Rollins

193. “Half of life is up – the other half is dealing with it.”

— Henry Rollins

194. “I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It’s going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.”

— Henry Rollins

195. “Sleep is for squares.”

— Henry Rollins

196. “I don’t mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.”

— Henry Rollins

197. “Don’t let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.”

— Henry Rollins

198. “Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.”

— Henry Rollins

199. “If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.”

— Henry Rollins

200. “I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it’s the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”

— Henry Rollins