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

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

" I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that. "

" Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Musicians have always adopted Macs. "

" 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. "

" Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve. "

" 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. "

" When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you. "

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

" I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it. "

" I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. "

" It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' "

" I think there's something strangely musical about noise. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways. "

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

" 'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. "

" 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? "