250 Quotes by Trent Reznor

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

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

There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

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

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

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.'

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

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