Henry Rollins Quotes

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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Don't 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.
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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
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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.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
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I love to go on stage and sing.
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
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There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
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