Trent Reznor has revealed that he considered ending Nine Inch Nails to “put all his eggs in one basket”, following his successful film scoring projects.
In 2011, the NIN frontman won an Academy Award for Best Original Score on The Social Network, kick-starting his dilemma on whether to keep the rock band going.
In an interview with Variety, Reznor said: “Your head spins a little bit when your first film goes on to win an Oscar, there’s nowhere to go but down from there, right? And you start to wonder – should it be ‘Fuck rock and roll! I’ve got a new lease on life that doesn’t have quite the age limit restrictions that playing in a rock band does? Should I put all my eggs in that basket?”
“As great as winning an Oscar is, the next day by lunchtime, we were back to being the same not-good-enough assholes that we were before we’d won one. It felt good for maybe 18 hours. It was a great experience and I have a lot of respect for the institution, but it didn’t fix everything that’s wrong with our brains, and our inadequacies remained.”
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