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 I don`t know if you have ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it`s stupid. I had about two hundred of those. Nine Inch Nails stood the two week test, looked great in print and could be abbreviated easily. It really does not have a literal meaning. It seemed kinda frightening. It`s a curse trying to come up with band names. Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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When Nine Inch Nails first got signed, I didn`t know how to do interviews. I really still don`t. I talk too much and say stupid things.
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I foolishly thought that if I just `made it` then everything would be okay. And everything wasn`t okay.
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I was raised by my grandparents, the greatest people in the world. I try to tell them, `You`re not going to hear my music on the radio. I`m not going to be on soap operas singing this.` I can imagine what my grandfather tells people: `It`s called Nine Inch Nails -- here`s the video. And here he is lying dead at the end of it.` I warned my grandfather that the church might be after him.
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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I cut my hair now and nobody recognizes me. It`s that whole thing I was bitching about earlier - `I can`t go anywhere without someone pointing` - And now it`s like, `Hey, it`s me man!` I`m standing in the N section with my laminate on and covered in mud. I just can`t get a response anymore.
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I was up above it. Now, I`m down in it.
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My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It`s got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn`t have a friend there.
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Bow down before the one you serve, you`re going to get what you deserve.
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I pop the video in, and wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps...Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn`t mine anymore...It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. That winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning. Different, but every bit as pure. - on his emotions upon watching the video of Johnny Cash`s cover of his song "Hurt"
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The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I`ve never paid much attention to it. I don`t believe things can really change. It doesn`t matter who`s president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don`t know. I guess that`s not the right attitude to take.
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There are just some things that don`t seem very fair in the world, like the hypocrisy of organized religion. I just don`t understand how people can blindly believe a bunch of the lies they`re fed, to believe it so that they don`t think too hard about other issues. `Be a good boy and you`ll go to Heaven.` If it works for you, fine, but it doesn`t work for me.
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I feel uncomfortable because I`m insecure about who I am.
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I think there`s something strangely musical about noise.
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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This isn`t meant to last. This is for right now.
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I write most of my songs when I`m in a bad mood.
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When I was five, I got forced into taking piano lessons. And it came really naturally to me. Knowing that I was good at something played an important role in my confidence. I was always shy, uncomfortable around people. I slipped by. But with the music, I didn`t. I got into bands. I studied trumpet and saxaphone a little bit. It got to the point where my teacher was like, you can be a concert pianist. But the last thing I wanted to hear at 15 is, well, you`re not fitting in now, how about dropping out of school, studying all the time and becoming a concert pianist? It sounds like "penis." Even earlier, Kiss had changed my world. It seemed evil and scary-the embodiment of rebelliousness when you`re age 12 and starting to get hair on your balls. Also, my dad, who I`d not lived with since I was 5, got me an electric piano. He had a little music store that sold acoustic instruments in the back room, where me and a couple other guys started jamming in terrible garage bands. I realized that music wasn`t all about learning a piece on the piano.
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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.
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My dad and I are best friends. He`s pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
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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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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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I would much rather sit in a room by myself than entertain a bunch of people. That`s not my style.
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If you look at the most talented filmmakers around right now, David Cronenberg and David Lynch, they had relatively normal upbringings. It doesn`t always take exotic, bizarre lifestyles, early-age molestations and prison sentences.
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I`ve become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
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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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It`s like beating your head open and unzipping your chest cavity saying `here are my guts - everything I`ve felt, including a lot of stuff I`m not proud of`. It`s hard. It uses you up. I walk off stage sometimes and feel like I`ve just slept with everybody in the audience. - on performing
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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.
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I think, fundamentally, music is something people love and need and can relate to. A lot of what`s out right now feels like McDonalds. It`s quick-fix. You kind of have a stomach ache afterwards.
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I wanted to escape Small Town USA. 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. None of that happened where I was. You`re almost taught to realize it`s not for you.
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Trivia
Played the saxophone in his highschool band.
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Is good friends with fellow recording artist, Tori Amos. He sang background vocals on her hit song, "Past The Mission"
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Band-mate Chris Vrenna left Nine Inch Nails to form the electronic one-man- band "Tweaker"
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Dropped out of College to spend his time with local bands, not doing much more than playing keyboards and occasionally doing background vocals.
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Only Nine Inch Nails member to appear on every one of the group's albums.
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He enjoys listening to Tori Amos, Aphex Twin, Dead Can Dance, The Flaming Lips, Jane's Addiction, Ministry, Portishead, Radiohead, Rammstein, Skinny Puppy, The Smashing Pumpkins and Tool
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He is a direct descendant of George Reznor, founder of Reznor Company in 1888 (a major manufacturer of Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning equipment). The Reznor Company was sold in the 1960s, but the equipment is still manufactured in Mercer, Pennsylvania (Trent Reznor's home town).
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At his high school he played the role of Judas in a school performance of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Is a good friend of Tori Amos.
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He produced Marilyn Manson's first few albums. He later had a falling-out with Manson. The two do not speak to this day.
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Converted an old funeral parlor in New Orleans into a recording studio. The door to the studio was salvaged from the former rented "love house" of Sharon Tate (one of seven of the victims of Charles Manson and his "family").
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Heads up 'nothing records', a division of 'Interscope Records'.
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Has an ongoing artistic feud with Limp Bizkit frontman and Interscope VP Fred Durst.
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Leads the music group Nine Inch Nails.
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Played prominent roles in his high school's productions of Jesus Christ SuperStar and The Music Man, as Judas and Professor Harold Hill respectively. He was voted "best in Drama" by his classmates.
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He has a younger sister, Tera
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Marks all official releases with 'halo' numbers.
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Nine Inch Nails were voted the 44th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Spent a year at Alleghheny College majoring in Computer Engineering and Music.
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He renovated an old funeral home into his home / studio.
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Former band-mate Richard Patrick is now the front-man for the alternative rock band "Filter"
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A popular rumor is that Reznor got the name Nine Inch Nails for his band because it was the length of the nails used in the crucifixion of Christ. Reznor, however, denies this.
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Trent played tenor sax in The Mercer Junior and Senior high marching bands.
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His musical influences are David Bowie, The Cure, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Jim Morrison, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle and Tom Waits.
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Brought in bassist/long time friend Jordie White (aka Twiggy Ramirez) to tour in support of the album 'With Teeth.'
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His favorite filmmakers are David Cronenberg, David Lynch and Ken Russell.
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Played in bands such as Option 30, Prick and Exotic Birds (which did music for the Michael J. Fox movie, "Light Of Day".
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Prior to the release of the 2007 NIN album Year Zero, several tracks were leaked through various music download websites. Reznor later admitted that he intentionally leaked the tracks himself as part of a "conspiracy" ad campaign to go along with the subject matter of the album.
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Has a project band called Tapeworm.
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Is a huge David Bowie fan.
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Is a huge fan of The Cure.
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Reznor has 2 dogs. A labrador named "Ethyl." and a Weirmaraner named "Daisy May." They both walk around freely in the New Oreleans Headquarters of Nothing Studios.
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