Trent Reznor Quotes
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Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail.
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
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I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
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Being in a band with my wife, I'm very aware of the multitude of ways that can go wrong. We're best friends and are interested in the same things, so it's natural to make music together.
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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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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The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.
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I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
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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 wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend
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I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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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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The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
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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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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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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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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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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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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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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.