Trent Reznor Quotes

I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it was for 'Love Gun.' I bought the record just because of the look of that display. Because I really loved monsters.

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

The 'Maybe Memories' album I remember having and listening until it broke. I remember it skipped one day; two or three songs wouldn't play on my CD player because I listened to it so much.

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.

I remember, when I was a kid, my dad would subscribe to the BMG Music Club, and we got that initial 12 CDs for a penny... I think it was cassettes. Eight CDs or 12 cassettes, something like that.

I have been wearing Air Max for so long, since I was seven playing around in the estate; I feel like I know my Air Max well.

I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'

Interestingly, when I look at pictures of me when I was five or six years old, I think I look pretty stylish.

When I was maybe three years old, I was obsessed with this song 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg. My mom took me to the mall and bought me a 45 of it. We would listen to that song all the time.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.