I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
I’m not artistic nor am I all that creative.
It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that’s kind of how humans are.
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.
It is just that I don’t want a wife and I don’t want kids.
I got three letters today telling me that I’m god. Why can’t I pay the rent?
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t go to the wrap party. I don’t go to the premiere.
There’s no retirement, there’s just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
It is you who makes me see what I really am.
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.
While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
There’s no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.