You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it,… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral'… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
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.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
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 been floating… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. — Trent Reznor Copy Share
The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times. — Trent Reznor Copy Share
Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. — Trent Reznor Copy Share
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules. — Trent Reznor Copy Share
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal… — Trent Reznor Copy Share
