With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
Henry RollinsSometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because itโs so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesnโt come back. Youโre left so alone that you canโt explain.
Henry RollinsContemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
Henry RollinsA text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Henry RollinsI write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
Henry Rollins