HENRY ROLLINS Says GEORGE W. BUSH Is 'Everything Wrong'

Tonya Zelinsky of Dose.ca recently conducted a short interview with unk rock icon Henry Rollins. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Dose: Do you consider yourself the voice of a new generation?

Henry Rollins: "No, I think everyone's their own voice. But you might hear my voice louder than some guy across the subway car from you. I don't know if I've ever met anyone like that. If you start to think in that way, you would probably lose a little attraction and a little immediacy 'cause then you start talking in that way."

Dose: Why spoken word and not music?

Henry Rollins: "It's a much different thing than the music. Music is, in a way, a very locked- down performance. (It's) fairly latitude in a lot of ways, in that you're part of a group, which is fine, but it can be restrictive. With (spoken word),it tours very easily because it's just me and I have complete latitude on stage."

Dose: Why is it you have so much to say?

Henry Rollins: "I was a very nervous, quiet child: straightjacket and on Ritalin in the early grades to the middle of high school. I kind of reacted to all that. Maybe I'm just acting out in the second half of my life. Mainly I was very nervous, shy and repressed as a kid. Around 18 or 19, I basically said, 'Fuck this' and since then it's been this massive unleashing."

Dose: Who pisses you off?

Henry Rollins: "A guy like George W. Bush really gets me going. I think he's everything wrong. To not be vocal about it, to me, is wimping out. To not stand up and say something is really missing the mark. I felt that way with music and with writing and if it freaks people out and if it draws a line in the sand, so be it."