Trent Reznor

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

— Trent Reznor

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

— Trent Reznor

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet,…

— 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

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

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

— Trent Reznor

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

— 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 thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

— Trent Reznor

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

— Trent Reznor

I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it…

— Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night.…

— Trent Reznor

I want to do something that matters.

— Trent Reznor

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

— Trent Reznor

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world…

— Trent Reznor

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're…

— 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

I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type…

— Trent Reznor

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

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't…

— Trent Reznor

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

— Trent Reznor

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy;…

— Trent Reznor

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

— 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

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

— Trent Reznor