Quotes by Trent Reznor

About Trent Reznor:

Michael Trent Reznor is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, he has led the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails since 1988. His first release as Nine Inch Nails, the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial and critical success. He has since released eight studio albums. He left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist until signing with Columbia Records in 2012.
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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.

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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 peo...

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My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

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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.

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

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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I like...

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If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

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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.

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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.

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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

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I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine.

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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.

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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

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It's one thing to sit back and say, 'Hey let's play a club, that will be great,' but then you get there and say, 'Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where's my dressing room?'

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I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

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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 co...

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If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

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I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something th...

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Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

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Author Bio

  • NameTrent Reznor
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornMay 17, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Composer; Pianist; Musician; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Original Score