Henry Rollins

Found 16 thoughts of Henry Rollins

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.

Henry Rollins

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.

Henry Rollins

Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

Henry Rollins

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Henry Rollins

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Henry Rollins

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Rollins

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Henry Rollins

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Henry Rollins

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Henry Rollins

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Henry Rollins

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Henry Rollins

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins

When life hands you a lemon, say 'Yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?'

Henry Rollins

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Henry Rollins