Henry Rollins Quotes

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

All my songs are where I am.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!