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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Not Good Enough

" Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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