You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
All my big heroes are literary, writers.
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.
Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
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.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
