Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He’s very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. – Henry Rollins
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. – Henry Rollins
When someone asks you, ‘What’s punk?’ my reply is, ‘If you have to ask, you’re never going to know.’ – Henry Rollins
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there’s electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. – Henry Rollins
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip. – Henry Rollins
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Saharan desert. You can’t even see across it. – Henry Rollins
For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n’ roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. – Henry Rollins
To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it’s the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me. – Henry Rollins
I don’t mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. – Henry Rollins
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. – Henry Rollins
Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone’s anything. If he’s telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? – Henry Rollins
I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don’t go out and party. I don’t smoke, drink or do drugs and I’m not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. – Henry Rollins
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. – Henry Rollins
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. – Henry Rollins
‘Fox News’ will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It’s as simple as that. – Henry Rollins
In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would. – Henry Rollins
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one’s own and helping to raise that of others. – Henry Rollins
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he’s a criminal instead of a scholar. It’s business. – Henry Rollins
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is – marriage. – Henry Rollins
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long – the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. – Henry Rollins
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. – Henry Rollins
You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. – Henry Rollins