Henry Rollins
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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Some music really does suck!
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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.
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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.
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.
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
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Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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