Trent Reznor Quotes

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.

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend?

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

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

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

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

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.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

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.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.

I want to do something that matters.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

My moral standing is lying down.

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

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

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

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. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

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.

There's nothing like a stressful day.

My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

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.

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

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

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

I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.