250 Quotes by Trent Reznor

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

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

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

I’d never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

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.

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.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

It’s kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

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