Henry Rollins

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

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.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Most Americans are very cool people.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you, doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

I want to change things for the better just like everybody else.

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

Nothing brings people together more then mutual hatred.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned misspelled letters I get, telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I need to do things on my own need to be left alone.

In the summer of '84 you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

When the movie comes out what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

I'm mellower now I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

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.