Trent Reznor Quotes

The reality is that people think it’s okay to steal music.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks – if not two months – before it comes out. There’s no real way around that.

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 think it’s just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

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.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

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

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

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

What I have appreciated about the ‘Call of Duty’ games is the scale of production. It’s not an indie game. It’s not trying to be an indie game. But I’ve genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

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