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" It's one thing to sit back and say, 'Hey let's play a club, that will be great,' but then you get there and say, 'Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where's my dressing room?' "

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" 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. "

Trent Reznor

Better

Music

People

" I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art. "

" iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. "

" People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that. "

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

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

" You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home. "

" My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got. "

" 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. "

Trent Reznor

Politics

Attitude

" 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. "

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

Trent Reznor

Environment

Radio

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit. "

" 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. "

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

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

Trent Reznor

Way

Less

" One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?' "

" When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it. "

Trent Reznor

Point

My Life

" I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I first played 'Wolfenstein 3D,' it blew my mind. It had a big impact on me. "

Trent Reznor

Had

Mind

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

" A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside. "