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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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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
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I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, Music sucks now! I'll go, I don't think so. Not over at my house.
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I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, You take a lot for granted. Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
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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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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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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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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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