Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollinsis an American musician, actor, television and radio host, and comedian. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, and is a regular columnist for LA Weekly and Rolling Stone Australia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth13 February 1961
CountryUnited States of America
pride trying might
Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
moving book hero
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.
musician brilliant drummer
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
brother democracy citizens-united
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
blessing world adults
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.
planets lasting
We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.
beach boys long
'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.
zuckerberg stuff kind
Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.
trying bombs clubs
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
creative artistic
I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.
pay today three
I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
stage comfortable
I'm most comfortable on stage.
wise war fall
I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.
goes-on stage
I love to go on stage and sing.