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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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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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