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Trent Reznor

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 17, 1965

When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

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Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'

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I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

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Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

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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.

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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

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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.'

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I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

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What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

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

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Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

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I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

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I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

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