#ow

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#i #left #my own #need #own

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#down #i #me #most #people

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#august #hollow #last #messenger #misery

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#down #fail #i #them #want

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#along #crawl #forged #hacked #highway

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#always #angry #band #books #emotionally

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#dysfunctional #generic #i #i think #know

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#could #flag #happened #i #lucky

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#also #anything #creativity #destroy #former

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#i #just #me #now #roll