Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

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.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

I'm very boring.

If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

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

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

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.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I love to go on stage and sing.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

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

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

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.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

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.