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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, Hey let's go get some coffee and talk thing is going to be at all helpful.
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
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I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
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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.
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
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It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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I'm a professional food eater.
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