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" I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song. "

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" It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever. "

" Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. "

" In my nothing, you were everything, to me. "

" I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that. "

" I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. "

" Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman. "

" This isn't meant to last. This is for right now. "

" When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod. "

" Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. "

" I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. "

" 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. You have to fight that. "

" I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways. "

" I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is. "

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

" I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. "

" I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. "

" When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.' "

" It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' "

" I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better. "

" I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. "

" I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big. "

" Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks. "

" 'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. "

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

" Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people. "

" The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished. "

" 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 stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old. "

" I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay. "

" If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out. "

" I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. "