Trent Reznor Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

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

People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

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 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.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.