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
dream tired sleep
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
inspirational life friends
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.
thinking understanding desire
After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
writing speak
I like how I write better than how I speak.
thinking way impossible
It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.
real doubt alive
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
thinking feelings trying
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.
writing impact connections
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
ideas hustle want
If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession...you have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
mean trying ifs
It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
fighting bodybuilding iron-will
There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
inspiration humble intimidating
Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.
done littles anticipation
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
flew-up iron want
When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.