Henry Rollins Quotes

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.

I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.

I think that party music will live forever.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and 'Don't Let Me Down' came on. My driver didn't recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her.

Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.