"When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Henry Rollins quotes (page 42 of 46)
904 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people."
Read quote
3 likes
"I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard."
Read quote
3 likes
"I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something."
Read quote
3 likes
"Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government."
Read quote
3 likes
"There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations."
Read quote
3 likes
"The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades]."
Read quote
3 likes
"But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done."
Read quote
3 likes
"I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing."
Read quote
3 likes
"My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on."
Read quote
3 likes
"I like how I write better than how I speak."
Read quote
3 likes
"When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given."
Read quote
3 likes
"I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes