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Name: Trent Reznor Band: Nine Inch Nails Position Guitar Vocals Date Of Birth May 17, 1965 Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: NIN Fan Site: NIN Net Fan Site: A Perfect Place Fan Site: Nin Linx Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"He dreamed a god up and called it christianity. Your god is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell I will see you there."


-"Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away."


-"I'm not saying I'm averse to a good pop song, like something by Incubus, although I'm not going to run out and buy their album or anything. But I'll sit with my mouth open in front of the TV watching what gets played these days. And I think people have been conditioned to this, and that's how bands of extreme mediocrity rise to the top. People don't know that there's anything better than this."


-"You should rise to that challenge, you know? Instead of just sitting back and bitching about everything. Things havechanged. Attention spans have shortened. The record business, with mergers and everything, is a less artistically free place to make music. But I don't think that an artist's response should be" Okay, white flag, forget it. I mean, let's change it back."


-"I know what I don't believe in. I know what I've rejected. But I'm not sure what I do believe in."


-"The only time I really want to murder people is when some fuckin' writer claims I'm fabricating everything just to be this thing. I hate doing interviews, 'cause I feel like I'm spreading my butthole open."


-"I come out of this cocoon now into a climate where things have changed, and it hasn't in my opinion been for the better. Today, musicians are complimented much more on their business plan than their talent. When I see an idiot like Fred Durst spouting off about, 'I'm in it for the money, buy my record, buy two copies of it, I'm going to be the best business man, I'm just doing this till I get into movies' sell dish-washing liquid or something. It's damaged music. I don't mean him personally, but this climate has created a very unhealthy situation to spawn new creative acts."


-"I think that something that sets NIN apart from other groups of its ilk is that as much as I try not to do it, I still end up writing a pop-song vein. Also I'm not coming from the same point of view as they are. I'm not saying its better, its just different. What I'm doing is taking a song and arranging it, rather than building up a groove and chanting over it."


-"I don't know if you have ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. I had about two hundred of those. Nine Inch Nails stood the two week test, looked great in print and could be abbreviated easily. It really does not have a literal meaning. It seemed kinda frightening. It's a curse trying to come up with band names."


-"I wanted to make a little spot in the context of the record where there was this break in the action," Trent explained to Musician. "In the midst of this buildup of these ever-growing, terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere...else."


-"I can make something loud but how can I make it the loudest, noisiest, most abrasive thing I've ever heard? Can I go ten steps past the gorriest horror film that you have ever seen that its more disturbing than cheesy? I know I can; I've done it. If you're not ready for it, it's terrible, it's noise. On a couple listenings, if you get that far, you hear through the distractions and find a beauty under the surface of ugliness."


-I'm still cleaning the mud out of my ears,"


-"At the end, I feel like everybody in the audience is my friend - we've gone through a battle and come out the other side. In the past, it had more of a confrontational vibe. We assaulted the audience, and they assaulted us back. This time it transcends that. By the encore, it seems like I want to invite everybody over to my house and sit around ... it's a strange connection that I don't remember being there, a vulnerability that wasn't apparent last time around."


-"I didn't want to come across as an industrial, snarling, Satan-singing entity."


          -Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, Guitar & Vocals, May 17, 1965