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
I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.
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!'
There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.
This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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 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 didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
There's nothing like a stressful day.
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.
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.
I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.