Quotes by Henry Rollins

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

I wonder what its like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of Americas first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

Most Americans are very cool people.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyones usually really cool, and its always a drag to leave.

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. Its cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. Theres nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, I have two moms - its cool. I dont fear that at all.

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Dont 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.

Were at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people arent going to make it.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

For many years, I tried to make New Years resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I have come to regard November as the older, harder mans October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summers death as winter tightens its grip.

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me youre playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?