Nine Inch Nails Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
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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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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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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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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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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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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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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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When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
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My moral standing is lying down.
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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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With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.
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I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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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.
