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" Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage. "

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" I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change. "

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

" In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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?' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way. "

" You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record. "

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" I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician. "