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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

There's nothing like a stressful day.

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.

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.

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

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

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

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

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

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

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

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 realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

All I've undergone I will keep on.

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.