Henry Rollins

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.”

“August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”

“So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.”

“One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.”

“In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.”

“I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.”

“When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.”

“The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'”

“I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.”

“For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.”

“America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.”

“It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.”

“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 you're 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?”

“I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.”

“I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.”

“You don't have to twist my arm to work.”

“America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.”

“When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.”

“My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.”

“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.”