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Henry Lawrence Garfield , better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, and is a regular columnist for LA Weekly and Rolling Stone Australia.

After performing in the short-lived Washington, D.C. band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 until 2003, and during 2006.

Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV's 120 Minutes, and Jackass. He had recurring dramatic roles in the second season of Sons of Anarchy, in the final seasons of the animated series The Legend of Korra as Zaheer, and has also had roles in several films. Rollins has campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including promoting LGBT rights, World Hunger Relief, the West Memphis Three and an end to war in particular.

As of 2013, Rollins is the host of the educational history television series 10 Things You Don't Know About, joining the show for its second and third seasons.

✵ 13. February 1961  •  Other names هنری رالینز, Հենրի Ռոլլինզ
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Black Coffee Blues
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Black Coffee Blues
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Famous Henry Rollins Quotes

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

Henry Rollins

Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

“What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

“You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

Henry Rollins Quotes about people

“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner
but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own”

Henry Rollins

Variant: Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

“You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave each other
They come to their senses and get selfish again.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.”

Henry Rollins

“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.”

Henry Rollins

“I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better”

Henry Rollins

“Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

Henry Rollins Quotes about feelings

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”

Henry Rollins

“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Eye Scream

“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins

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“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”

Henry Rollins

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Smile, You're Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins Quotes

“Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star act. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Black Coffee Blues

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”

Henry Rollins

“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”

Henry Rollins

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.”

Henry Rollins

Do I Come Here Often

“Love heals scars love left”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.”

Henry Rollins

Provoked with Henry Rollins, House of Blues, New Orleans, September 21, 2007

“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“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.”

Henry Rollins

“Respect is not a one way street”

Henry Rollins

“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”

Henry Rollins

“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”

Henry Rollins

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?”

Henry Rollins

“Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.”

Henry Rollins

“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“A rose trapped inside a fist.”

Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!”

Henry Rollins

Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)
Source: Talk is Cheap: Volume 1

“I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free”

Henry Rollins

“You can find me in the frozen mood section.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Eye Scream

“I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“I'll be here tomorrow
If I can make it through today.”

Henry Rollins

“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.”

Henry Rollins

“You can still function as a living ruin.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist (1998)
Context: They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

“When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist (1998)

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.”

Henry Rollins

Source: Solipsist

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

Henry Rollins

Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)
Source: Talk is Cheap: Volume 1

“Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.”

Henry Rollins

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

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