I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour. Henry Rollins More Quotes by Henry Rollins More Quotes From Henry Rollins I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it. Henry Rollins dont-care care people Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently. Henry Rollins johnny-rotten rotten people I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to. Henry Rollins pay attention enemy I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did. Henry Rollins kings teacher kids You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all. Henry Rollins wells hate america There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. Henry Rollins democracy government calling The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades]. Henry Rollins wall army country But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done. Henry Rollins done song war What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact." Henry Rollins twelve soldier reality Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts. Henry Rollins effort guy together As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone. Henry Rollins gone people thinking I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. Henry Rollins want trying people Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. You can't judge the many by the actions of a few. What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media. All these places I go, people say that America is good and I'm like, "Well, thank you, I'm glad you can see it." And you know - we are good, we've just got work to do. Henry Rollins what-if judging people Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government. Henry Rollins media government people There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more. Because Americans, it's easy to make us freak out. When the going gets rough, you have to get conservative. That's what's happened to America in the last eight years. I just try to point out that there's more going on than most people pay attention to. Henry Rollins destiny trying people I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across. Henry Rollins trying giving people The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired. Henry Rollins radio book thinking For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago. Henry Rollins one-day age years I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road. Henry Rollins skills stories ideas When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people. Henry Rollins pyramids kids people
