I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out." Henry Rollins More Quotes by Henry Rollins More Quotes From Henry Rollins When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp. Henry Rollins dough littles I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs. Henry Rollins work-ethic wish jobs For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me. Henry Rollins employment retirement jobs There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares? Henry Rollins girl class beach There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed. Henry Rollins kenya looks way Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it. Henry Rollins wells people looks When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.' Henry Rollins desert shopping dry I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion. Henry Rollins fashion pain feelings I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper. Henry Rollins temper live-by important I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for. Henry Rollins benefits people needs I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life. Henry Rollins powerful writing thinking I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have. Henry Rollins writing character thinking I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture. Henry Rollins typical guy trying Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview. Henry Rollins vote would-be home Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that. Henry Rollins understanding mean ideas I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population. Henry Rollins population needs thinking Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun. Henry Rollins rocks fun long I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. Henry Rollins I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time. Henry Rollins talking men ideas I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration. Henry Rollins inspiration trying interesting
