Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy;… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out… — 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… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as… — 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
As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch… — 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
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 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
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'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what… — 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 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
