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 Copy Share Image
I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 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
It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 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
The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of… — 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 like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Image
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Image
