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

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

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.

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.