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" When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore. "

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Trent Reznor

School

Place

Identity

" When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes. "

" It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on. "

Trent Reznor

Down

Upside Down

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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

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

Trent Reznor

Much

Even

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

" When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.' "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process. "

Trent Reznor

Life

People

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Musicians have always adopted Macs. "

" I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days. "

" Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. "

Trent Reznor

Image

MTV

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

" The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished. "