Henry Rollins Quotes

Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Sure I've done some runs and even toured some amazing places around the world, but this is Stone Temple Pilots!

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of artists, misfits and weirdos, where everyone was welcomed and encouraged to express themselves.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.

The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought 'This Nation's Saving Grace' when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song I really loved and related to.

The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.