“In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inceptio...” — Trent Reznor Quote

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.

The hardest thing which I've experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who's a wonderful actor, and telling him I've had to cut him out of the movie, which I've had to do twice. That's a lump-in-the-throat phone call.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.