Henry Rollins

“Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.”

“The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.”

“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.”

“Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.”

“Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.”

“It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.”

“The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.”

“I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.”

“Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.”

“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.”

“A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.”

“I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.”

“I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.”

“I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.”

“Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.”

“I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.”

“It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.”

“I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.”

“With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.”

“This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.”