Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor, known professionally as Trent Reznor, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, he is best known as the founder and principal songwriter of industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails. His first release under this pseudonym, the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial and critical success. He has since released eight studio albums. He left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist until signing with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth17 May 1965
CityMercer, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.
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.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, Im preaching to the choir.
I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
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.
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.
All I've undergone I will keep on.
I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
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.
I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
I think theres something strangely musical about noise.