250 Quotes by Trent Reznor

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

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

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.

I used to buy vinyl. 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.

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.

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?

One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.