I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, ‘All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a – if you want and it’s $5 on your cable bill.’
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.
This isn’t meant to last. This is for right now.
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
I think theres something strangely musical about noise.
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
I’ll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
I was up above it. Now, I’m down in it.
All I’ve undergone I will keep on.
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren’t broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.
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.
I didn’t want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
There’s nothing like a stressful day.
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.
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.
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.