It's more of a NIN-spotting thing than real news, but guitarist Steve Vai put Trent Reznor in some high company in
an article in Guitar Player magazine:
GP: How do you create "effective" music?Vai: It's just the muse. It's that elusive, creative juice we all have. I would venture to say that if you asked Jimi Hendrix or Beethoven or Trent Reznor why they did what they did, the answers would be, "I don't know." I don�t think they did know. They had no choice. They were who they were.
Thanks to Ian for sending that in.