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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.
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Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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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.
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.
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With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'
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The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
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I love to go on stage and sing.
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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You have to realize 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.
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