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

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

" I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more. "

" The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn't have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise. "

" As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free. "

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

" Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail. "

" Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it. "

" The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now. "

" I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms. "

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

" The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music. "

" There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.' "

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

" I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know? "

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

" Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.' "

" I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record. "