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There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
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Musician
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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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.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.
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Respect is not a one way street
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I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.
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The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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Sleep is for squares.
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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.
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I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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