Trent Reznor Quotes

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I'm afraid of me.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

It's tough being me.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I have no desire to look at myself.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.