Henry Rollins Quotes

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.

When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I'm too old to do things by half.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.