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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
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I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
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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 think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.
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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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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
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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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God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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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 think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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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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All I've undergone I will keep on.
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Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
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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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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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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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With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.
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Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
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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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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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