Henry Rollins Quotes

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

I've been influenced by my travels across India and the globe.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.