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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

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Trent Reznor
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 17
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I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
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Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.
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Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.
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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.
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My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.
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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.
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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.
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
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I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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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.
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
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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!'
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I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.
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