Henry Rollins Quotes

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.

Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.

I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?

I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'

I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue - and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country - they had something new and very exciting.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

There is... a greater sense of divine purpose when we're playing at all-Christian rock shows. In clubs or bars, we know that the audience primarily came to see a show, so we try not to get preachy and instead let the music do most of the talking.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.