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
romantic song hopeless
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
records fossils
Every single record I have is a fossil.
hard-work writing complaining
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
yelling ifs
You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
thinking suffering world
I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
language shallow conversation
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
new-york feelings knows
When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
rights movement jazz
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
guy talent
I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
cynical shooting matter
When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.
art safe boeing
When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.
spring preparation heat
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
school records sound
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
hurt sorry kids
I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."