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.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.