Gary Numan Quotes

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

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

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

I am associated with techno epics.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.