"Every artist wants to begin creating music exactly the way it appears in their head. But first, you always have to do a little people-pleasing to get the crowd to look at you. Then you can expand into the true measure of who you are, musically, and people will respect you enough to take you seriously, even if it's something new and different they've never heard before. The trouble comes when you fuck up your establishment. People-please too much, and you sell out. People-please too little, and nobody even looks your way. In our genre, Datach'i didn't people-please. He didn't establish well. Marilyn Manson people-pleased too much, sold out, and was torn down. You have to find the balance. Be the industrial equivalent of Kurt Cobain."

-Trent Reznor,
musician and my mentor