Trent Reznor Quotes
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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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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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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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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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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'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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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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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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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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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 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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My moral standing is lying down.
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The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.
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I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.
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My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
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I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
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I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick–fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.
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I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.