Trent Reznor Quotes

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

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

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

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

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

I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

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

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.

There's nothing like a stressful day.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

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

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'

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

My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.