Henry Rollins Quotes

Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

There are a handful of music docs I'd love to do, including David Bowie.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.

I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.

I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.

Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.