This is a compilation of trent reznors thoughts and feelings of
himself,life,his music ..well you get the idea. I want this page
to mean something Not have his birthday, his place of birth so on.
If that's the kinda stuff you're looking for- well you might find it but only if he
is the one to mention it:)
Trents thoughts on Tori amos ?
Trent Reznors feeling on saving rock How Trent Reznors gets himself back up singers from time to time
it would typically go, like, eleven o'clock at night,
we'd figure we need some people to yell something. So we'd just
empty the bar across the street and have a bunch of drunk guys
come in and mumble something. I think we assembled the most
atonal group of females I've ever heard.they were just comically horrendous
Trent emotions on the making of The Fragile
I had to do some soul searching to see what was inside of me to record this album,"
[1994's] The Downward Spiral was darker, because it contained what I felt at that time.
Right now I feel more mature, and I think The Fragile is a more complex and mature work.
What brought Trent out of his isolation It took the long-awaited release of The Fragile, the third NIN album,
to coax him from the isolation in which he had immersed himself over the past five years Where has trent been hiding?
I spent the last two and a half years in the studio working on this album in New
Orleans. I was a shell of isolation,
Trents feeling on becoming detached to the outside world
I knew there was an inherent danger in doing that; that the best result could have been to find out
what I had in my mind and that that was more unique than communicating what was going on
around me. But the worst result could have been to be left with the stillness that comes when
there's not much going on around you." Trent's thoughts on nine inch nails being a band
It was not like some mutual ass kissing thing.
I really liked her first album,
which is not the kind of thing i'd normally listen to.
someone had given it to me and said that it sounded like sinead o'connor.
i fucking can't stand sinead o'connor,so I ignored it.
then i saw the video for silent all these years
and it struck me in a way where i wasn't sure if i liked it or not.
but it was interesting.
i was pleasantly surprised to find someone who i thought was taking chances.
not playing it safe, and also writing good songs, melodies and really good lyrics.
i thought that i should try and get in touch with her,
just to try and say, not that i normally do this either,
i think your record's really good.
i relate to her work a lot, on some level,
in an opposite of a nine inch nails arrangement kind of way.
i really think that it works.
she approaches things with a totally different aesthetic than i do,
but it's good.
it's not a band,it's not, here's an idea for a song - let's all
work on it. I would hope someday that it would be more of a
collaboration, but it isn't right now. it's basically if you
don't like what you're playing, come up with something better.
if I like it, you can play it. if I don't, play what I did.
not to be a prick, but I have an idea of how I want things to
come out and it's tough when you're in a situation where you're
not quite sure of someone's direction. I'm not thinking guitar
part; I'm thinking of the part that fits the big picture. if it's
guitar, fine; if it's cowbell, fine. if it sucks, then I've got
myself to blame. some people mistake it for egotism. I'm not out
to say I played every part and I edited every piece of tape, but
it just works out that way.
Trent's thoughts on who his influences where.
if anyone ever asks me about influences I always say ministry.
I'm not embarrassed of that, but I also don't want nin to be the
ministry wanna-be band,al's been a hero of mine and it was just
cool to walk in a room and have him go, trent, I gotta talk to
you about a lotta shit, man. I was like, wow. I couldn't believe
it. I have to admit before I met him I thought, is he going to
fucking throw a bottle at me? but he's a nice, intelligent guy.
he's got that aggressive side to him, but it wasn't like he was
an animal loose, peeing on people. he's got his shit
together.
Trent's thoughts on how people perceive him
People come up to me like I'm this grim,
have-a-noose-around-my-neck-at-all-times kind of person.
That's not the case at all," says Trent Reznor."I'm not
the happiest guy in the world. I'm not sure why.
But I can't say, "It's because someone
stole my bike.
Trent's thoughts on how he felt before the release of downward spiral
Before its release, Reznor. was certain "it was the end of
my career," he says. "I thought nobody's going to buy this."
heresy
I was trying to explore some of the paranoia I have as a sexually active person in the age of aids," he
says of "heresy."
Trent's grandparents
I was raised by my grandparents, the greatest people in the world," says
Trent. "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."
big man with a gun
the record was nearing completion. I had written those lyrics pretty quickly
and I didn't know if I was going
to use them or not. to me, downward spiral builds to a certain
degree of madness, then it changes. that
would be the last stage of delirium. so the original point of "big man with a gun" was madness.
but it was
also making fun of the whole misogynic gangster-rap bullshit.
Does Trent Reznor suffer from writers block?
I'm afraid to really push myself and write because I'm afraid of failure
when I was doing the downward spiral I was kinda freaked out,and rick ruben,
who`s doing the new record with me was
trying to talk to me
and I just wanted to kill myself
I hated music I was like, I just wanted to get back on the road because I hated sitting in my room trying to
how do you say this?Just scrapping my fucking soul
you write something down and go fuck I cant say that I don't want people to know that its so naked and
honest your scared to let it out your giving a part of your soul away
exposing a part of yourself. I avoid that. I hate the feeling of sending a tape out to someone hers my new
song I just cut my soul open check it out criticize it."
what was Trent's first real rock band?
option thirty. that was actually about one-third originals,
two-thirds covers, from elvis costello to Wang
chung. for what it's worth, wang chung put a record out before the
dance hall days" record, when they
spelled their name differently, h-u-a-n-g chung.
all guitar-base-drums. still a real good record.
Does Trent want to be content?
Its not about being content its about what if everything you ever wished for in your life and never thought
you'd get, you got?And it still sucked. Thats the thing I look at oasis dumb idiots just living life. you, know
ignorance is bliss and there's a truth that I guess I just don't want it.
Trent reznors thoughts on keyboards
Maybe keyboards are considered unfashionable these days, but I
don't give a fuck.
I think keyboards have been given a bad rap in rock music
he says with disgust. "The Pearl Jams and whoever
that's not what I'm about. I like keyboards. I like
technology. This is who I am."
what's with the pigs theme on the downward spiral?
chance more than anything,
I mean people say that it was because I was in the tate house,
but you know, it was a reference to that,
which it wasn't consciously a reference to the murders that took place
there. that wasn't the reason I was in that house, but again,
it's hard for me to try to say that and people
believe that it wasn't a publicity stunt of some sort.
Trent and why he bought the tate house
On a whim, I came out to Los Angeles," he says, sprawled
across a sofa at the Record Plant in Hollywood.
It was a whirlwind tour I looked at maybe 15 houses
in one day, and at that time I had no idea one of them
was the Tate house. No one brought that to my attention
even though they should have.
Trent Reznor and the meaning of nine inch nails
I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names
usually you think you have a great one and you look
at it the next day and it's stupid.
I had about 200 of those.
nine inch nails lasted the two-week test, looked great
in print, and could be abbreviate easily.
it really doesn't have any literal meaning.
it seemed kind of frightening. (in his best he-man voice)
tough and manly! it's a curse trying to come up with band
names."
What was the initial theme for downward?
the big overview was of
somebody who systematically throws away every aspect of
his life and what's around him-- from personal
relationships to religion. this person is giving up to a
certain degree, but also finding some peace by getting
rid of things that were bogging him down. the record also
looks at certain vices as being ways of trying to dull
the pain of what this person is hiding. of course I'm
talking about myself. so that was the general theme
not that that's any great leap for me, thematically. the
reason why I hope people like nine inch nails is the
lyrics. I think that's the element I care about most on
this record, in terms of honesty and nakedness of emotion.
trent on why broken was recorded in secret
with broken, he explains, "I wanted to
do something alot harder than I did on pretty hate
machine. I wanted it to be a blast of destruction.
broken was made in secret because, according to Reznor.,
we were in the midst of a legal tangle with tvt,
our old record label."
Trent reznor's opinions on religion
I believe in god,he says. I was brought up going to
Sunday school and church, but it didn't really mean
anything. things upset me lot. it was just a the me
I kept coming back to-religion, guilt and doubting.
I believe there's a god but I'm not too sure of his
relevance
Why is nine inch nails music so dark and depressing?
How can such an apparently nice, regular guy be the
source of such angst?"it's all basically me," trent
assures me, speaking in that quiet, controlled voice that
always surprises people who only know his music.
"it's all my personality, but it's amplified in a certain
direction. I get a lot of people saying, ' wow, you must
be the most depressed person in the world!' well, I don't
think I am. I'm not the happiest guy in the world either.
but when I'm writing songs, I deliberately try to explore
incredibly black emotions--combining personal experience
with imaginative projection--to see how far I can get.
I often end up bumming myself out pretty good."
what was the hardest song to write?
there's always one song per record - maybe two if you're
real lucky - where you work and work and work, and it
just takes a hell of a long time for the song to come
together. on pretty hate machine it was "kinda I want to"
,
which I still think sucks, and "that's what I get."
those songs took an unbelievable amount of work.
then you get into the trap of saying, "well, I spent so
much time on this, it's gotta be good. I've gotta make it
work. It's usually one part that's fucking the whole thing
up. and that's usually the part that you think is really
great. you'll hear a million playbacks of the song and
say, "man, that part is so fucking cool. why is the song
not happening?" then finally someone hits the mute button
for that part and the song's good. and you realize,
"oh fuck, it's that part I love so much."
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