Trent Reznor Quotes
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With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.
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God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.
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I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.
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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
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I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.
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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.