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 That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do. Henry Rollins phones artist book I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard. Henry Rollins growing-up nice summer I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do. Henry Rollins crazy hate people No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror. Henry Rollins born horror children I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me. Henry Rollins mind house country I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something. Henry Rollins tense backwards thinking I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something. Henry Rollins opportunities-to-learn opportunity An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. Henry Rollins understanding animal appreciation I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship. Henry Rollins taken animal thinking I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc. Henry Rollins animal appreciation thinking Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me. Henry Rollins perfect people needs The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to. Henry Rollins blow talking ideas It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed. Henry Rollins hate easy america I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. Henry Rollins prisms living-my-life limits Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. Henry Rollins pain retirement country Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. Henry Rollins woods rain forests We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. Henry Rollins vengeance planets We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet. Henry Rollins planets lasting All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it. Henry Rollins hero book moving We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows. Henry Rollins nice ignorance thinking
