Quotes by Henry Rollins

I dont have talent, I have tenacity.

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. Theres got to be someone for me. Its not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I think to myself: I dont want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us. Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. ..It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

I was at this guys house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldnt think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldnt help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didnt.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Its funny how people think that they have a right to life. Now isnt that the biggest load you ever heard? You dont have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Lets take it back to the jungle. Where the fuck are your rights there? No layers in the jungle. Civilization has allowed the weak to survive. You can sit back and be an overweight, apathetic piece of shit, smoke your dope and still survive because you have a right to life.

Ill be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

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.

I still have dreams about CBGBs. I still miss the place.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some dont. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

I dont mind The Boss. I think hes an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. Ive met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

In Israel, theres a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there youve got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe youre in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.