Trent Reznor

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

— Trent Reznor

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

— Trent Reznor

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It…

— Trent Reznor

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

— Trent Reznor

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

— Trent Reznor

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

— Trent Reznor

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

— Trent Reznor

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John…

— Trent Reznor

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much…

— Trent Reznor

When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go…

— Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What…

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My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and…

— Trent Reznor

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's…

— Trent Reznor

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

— Trent Reznor

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try…

— Trent Reznor

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in…

— Trent Reznor

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and…

— Trent Reznor

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world.…

— Trent Reznor

When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social…

— Trent Reznor

The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but…

— Trent Reznor

The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe…

— Trent Reznor

'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge…

— Trent Reznor

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their…

— Trent Reznor

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd…

— Trent Reznor

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

— Trent Reznor

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

— Trent Reznor

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

— Trent Reznor

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

— Trent Reznor

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

— Trent Reznor

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

— Trent Reznor

It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play…

— Trent Reznor

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

— Trent Reznor

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

— Trent Reznor

“The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away.”

— Trent Reznor

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

— Trent Reznor

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

— Trent Reznor

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

— Trent Reznor

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an…

— Trent Reznor

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now…

— Trent Reznor

I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the…

— Trent Reznor