Best 72 quotes of Trent Reznor on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

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

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

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

Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

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

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 believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

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

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 do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

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

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.

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

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.

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

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

I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

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.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

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

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

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 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 think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

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

I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

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 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.

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

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend?

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

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

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

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

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!'

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.

My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

My moral standing is lying down.

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.