Trent Reznor Quotes
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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 was up above it. Now, I'm down in 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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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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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 don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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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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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 was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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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 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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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
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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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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
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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 want to do something that matters.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.
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Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.