Quote

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.

Trent Reznor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Trent Reznor
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 17
Composer
Guitarist
Manufacturer
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Vocalist
Michael Trent Reznor
Thought
Ever
Would
Miserable
Life
Couldn
Band
Successful
Goal
Understand

More quotes by Trent Reznor

Image
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.
Trent Reznor
Image
People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'
Trent Reznor
Image
I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
Trent Reznor
Image
I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
Trent Reznor
Image
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.
Trent Reznor
Image
There's nothing like a stressful day.
Trent Reznor
Image
I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
Trent Reznor
Image
I want to do something that matters.
Trent Reznor
Image
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Trent Reznor
Image
I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
Trent Reznor
Image
Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.
Trent Reznor
Image
I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
Trent Reznor
Image
To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.
Trent Reznor
Image
I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.
Trent Reznor
Image
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
Trent Reznor
Image
I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.
Trent Reznor
Image
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor
Image
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!'
Trent Reznor
Image
Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
Trent Reznor
Image
I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
Trent Reznor