Summary
HENRY Rollins probably has one of those passports stuffed full of extra pages and so bashed from sliding in and out of his pocket you can no longer make out the eagle on its cover. He often says his ideal weekend consists of solo hibernation, a stack of books and no phone, but Rollins - punk icon, raconteur, TV host, actor, author and publisher - isn't one for sitting still. Well, you wouldn't be, with that CV.
Despite rising at 4am for our phone call (he's in LA), Rollins is cheerful and verbose. He's not long back from a month in Southeast Asia, filming in Thailand and Burma. "I collect countries like charms on a bracelet," he says. "Not for bragging rights, but because my curiosity is so overwhelming. Whenever I come back from one place I want to go to three others.See the full content of this document
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Regarding Henry
"Since I'm a guy who likes to go on stage and tell stories, well, this is how you get stories. Some guys get their stories at the barbershop. I get mine at the barbershop - in Tehran!"
Passion, as much as necessity, impels him to lace up his travelling shoes: "As an American, we are the ones who dictate how the world turns - where the oil goes, who does and does not get fed - and I need to see this for myself, so my...See the full content of this document
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