And moments later shots rung out and the next morning I cleaned my friend's brains off my lawn
Back in 1981, a very young Henry Rollins stormed the stage of the legendary punk band Black Flag
He took the mic and the rest is history
He blew the band away, they made him lead singer, he quit his job at an ice cream store
And he hasn't looked back
Whatever Henry Rollins does, the dude does it hardcore
Music, acting, he's written over 25 books, he's an anti-racism campaigner, a journalist, he travels the world speaking
No family, no partner
But where does the drive for all of it come from?
Can I just say, Henry Rollins, welcome to the show
Thank you very much
You once said in an interview that your life is paranoia and fear and you're just trying to not get hit
Yeah
Is that still true?
Yeah, anger and fear: fear of failure drives me
Paranoia of things going wrong around me, drives me
I'm driven by a lot of kind, really ugly anger
So I have a lot of that in me
And it comes from a father who was terrifying and teachers who yelled at me and told me I'd never be anything
And so, I descend from the sky and land on things really hard
And I go at everything with that amount of fury
I'm not saying I'm going to hit anybody and I'm not mad at you
I'm very happy to be here and I'll answer every question to the best of my ability
But I go at everything like 'you think I can't?'
'Hey you wanna try acting?' 'Yeah, I'll try acting.'
'Can you act?' 'No. So let's go.'
I've seen Sons Of Anarchy, you can act
Thank you
Fair is for losers, I'd rather win
Why was your dad terrifying?
He was racist
He would say incredibly awful, unrepeatable things about women
When I was like really inappropriately young, he would tell me how to deal with women
I cannot repeat what he said. Not even ...
It's so awful
It's misogyny on steroids. It's the King Kong of misogyny