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

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" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

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

" My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved. "

" When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them. "

" 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 spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250 if you'd like a really nice coffee-table thing.' Everything felt like the right thing to do at the time and then six months later would feel tired. And I would feel tired. So that's one reason for returning to a major label. "

" If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger. "

" 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 acknowledged that they are writing music for a character. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. "

" I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much. "

" Being in a band with my wife, I'm very aware of the multitude of ways that can go wrong. We're best friends and are interested in the same things, so it's natural to make music together. "

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

" I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. "

" 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 found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir. "

" I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times. "

" I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up. "

" My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them. "

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

" 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 feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am. "

" MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them. "

" My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other. "

" Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am. "

" 'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool. "

" When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter? "