250 Quotes by Trent Reznor

Just how deep do you believe? Can you get up off your knees?

I was up above it. Now, I’m down in it.

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.

I’ll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

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

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!’

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn’t understand why that would be.

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.