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" 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. "

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" I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say? "

Trent Reznor

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Say

" With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid. "

" I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet. "

" I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them. "

" After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days. "

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

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

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

Trent Reznor

Had

Mind

" 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?' "

" The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands. "

" To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it. "

" What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out. "

" I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility. "

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

" I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. "

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