Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, ‘I have two moms – it’s cool.’ I don’t fear that at all.”

— Henry Rollins

402. “The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.”

— Henry Rollins

403. “Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.”

— Henry Rollins

404. “It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.”

— Henry Rollins

405. “There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.”

— Henry Rollins

406. “I’m always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there’s been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, “Music sucks now!” I’ll go, “I don’t think so. Not over at my house.””

— Henry Rollins

407. “I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.”

— Henry Rollins

408. “When I write lyrics, it’s only when I’m angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it’s never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.”

— Henry Rollins

409. “Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.”

— Henry Rollins

410. “I don’t cuss in songs. It’s too easy.”

— Henry Rollins

411. “I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It’s all these things that make reading so appealing to me.”

— Henry Rollins

412. “Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn’t seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn’t at all great for business.”

— Henry Rollins

413. “Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they’re poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.”

— Henry Rollins

414. “I wonder if it is Australia’s great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.”

— Henry Rollins

415. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

416. “Rarely do I do film press because I’m so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it’s just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.”

— Henry Rollins

417. “So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn’t really give them the idea of the world. Or they don’t read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.”

— Henry Rollins

418. “If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around – you’re living in it.”

— Henry Rollins

419. “As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.”

— Henry Rollins

420. “Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.”

— Henry Rollins

421. “This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.”

— Henry Rollins

422. “I got three letters today telling me that I’m god. Why can’t I pay the rent?”

— Henry Rollins

423. “There’s always going to be a need for activism; there’s always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.”

— Henry Rollins

424. “I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don’t need money. Mick Jagger – he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.”

— Henry Rollins

425. “When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension.”

— Henry Rollins

426. “But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.”

— Henry Rollins

427. “Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.”

— Henry Rollins

428. “The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.”

— Henry Rollins

429. “I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don’t have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it’s pretty insane as it is.”

— Henry Rollins

430. “Most Americans are very cool people.”

— Henry Rollins

431. “I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that’s how I get it out – with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it’s always kind of a wail.”

— Henry Rollins

432. “I don’t know how much you follow current events. For some, there’s not enough time to keep up on what’s happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.”

— Henry Rollins

433. “I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won’t attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.”

— Henry Rollins

434. “Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.”

— Henry Rollins

435. “While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.”

— Henry Rollins

436. “I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.”

— Henry Rollins

437. “My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don’t end up like this man.”

— Henry Rollins

438. “The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.”

— Henry Rollins

439. “I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

— Henry Rollins

440. “If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.”

— Henry Rollins

441. “The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.”

— Henry Rollins

442. “I don’t know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.”

— Henry Rollins

443. “Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.”

— Henry Rollins

444. “With a book, there’s no volume to turn up. You’re very naked with a book.”

— Henry Rollins

445. “I work pretty much every day. I can’t really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.”

— Henry Rollins

446. “For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I’ve always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that’s attracted me as far as live.”

— Henry Rollins

447. “When I am in Africa, I realize I don’t know much, have not seen much, and there’s a lot to be done.”

— Henry Rollins

448. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

449. “When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama – you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq – I don’t understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there’s a race problem.”

— Henry Rollins

450. “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