Trent Reznor Quotes
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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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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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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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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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 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 Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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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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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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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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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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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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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've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.
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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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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 don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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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 was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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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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One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.