Trent Reznor Quotes
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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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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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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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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 don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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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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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
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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 believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
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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'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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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 hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.
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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 remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.
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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
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Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.
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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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Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.
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My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.
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All I've undergone I will keep on.
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.