Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, ‘Several Shades of Why’ and ‘Heavy Blanket,’ J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that ’80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.”

— Henry Rollins

152. “I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.”

— Henry Rollins

153. “Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.”

— Henry Rollins

154. “If there was a god, he wouldn’t let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That’s right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn’t it?”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

156. “I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”

— Henry Rollins

157. “I can’t imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.”

— Henry Rollins

158. “I’m so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I’m the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I’m all I’ve got. I’m all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

160. “Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.”

— Henry Rollins

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

169. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

175. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

181. “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

182. “Some soldier will say, ‘You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I’m glad you came all the way out here.’ And you know, you say, ‘Well, maybe one day you’ll see the light but I’m glad to be out here with you.’”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

190. “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

191. “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

192. “I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

195. “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

196. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

198. “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

199. “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

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

— Henry Rollins