Henry Rollins Quotes

To be famous and broke is hard.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

When I moved to London I couldn't afford to rent anywhere. So I housesat for a friend of my mum and dad's - and had to look after her sickly cat. That was the only way I could survive on a meagre intern wage.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.