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

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

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

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

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

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

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 like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

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 tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.

It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'

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.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

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.

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

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

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

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

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

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

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

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.

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.

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

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.

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