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
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.
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.
I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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.
When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.
Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.