“When somebody first called me a rock star it was like a dream come true. And my ego reflected that.” An audience with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor after “self-destruction” forced him to confront some ugly, painful home truths

Trent Reznor, 2000.

In the spring and summer of 2000, in support of the previous year's The Fragile record, Nine Inch Nails embarked upon the Fragility v2.0 tour in North America, playing 44 arena shows with A Perfect Circle in support.

On May 22, 2000, Louder's Paul Brannigan was sent to Houston, Texas, on assignment from Kerrang! magazine, to interview Trent Reznor, and found Nine Inch Nails' mastermind in a reflective mood, grateful to have survived the chaos of the '90s, but almost personally offended by what he saw as the stupidity of much of the contemporary rock and metal scene.

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