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Last month Nine Inch Nails frontman/creator Trent Reznor participated in an interview for DIGG.com where he answered the 10 most popular questions as voted on by DIGG visitors. Apparently, fans who frequent the forums at NIN.com and Echoing the Sound were not really happy with the questions that were asked and they began voicing their displeasure with the interview on those messageboards. Reznor decided to reach out to those fans and asked them to come up with their own questions for him to answer and agreed to participate in a new interview. The interview was conducted via webcam (a first for Reznor) last night and has been posted online for download (it hasn’t yet been encoded for streaming online). I’ve been able to watch the interview and will pass along some of what I think are the most interesting highlights … including TR‘s first public acknowledgment of his recent engagement:

Trent was asked about the possibility of releasing any unreleased music and he revealed that there isn’t an archive of unreleased NIN tracks for him to release. He mentioned that if an artist does have a library of unreleased tracks like that then they should release them … he then suggested that Prince release some of his unreleased music because, according to TR, his last few albums “have sucked”. Reznor then laughed off his comment and said, “I may be happy and engaged but I can still be a prick.” This is the first public acknowledgment that Trent has made about his engagement to West Indian Girl singer Mariqueen Maandig. As a very private person, I know it’s a big deal for TR to talk about his private life like this … my guess is that he mentioned it before the question could be asked of him. I was lucky enough to meet the beautiful Mariqeen at the Star Trek premiere here in Hollywood, CA last week when Trent introduced her to me:

Believe me, nothing would’ve pleased me more than to share their good news with the world but it was not my place to make any announcement. It was only after Mariqueen herself made the announcement online that I offered my public congratulations :)

Trent clarified that “Nine Inch Nails is not done” and that the hiatus to come after this year’s NIN/JA 2009 Tour is just so that he can be “stationary” for a while. He wants to ensure that NIN is a “precious thing” and putting it aside for a while will keep it from getting beat down to death with endless touring. He revealed that he doesn’t want to become a “parody” of himself and that he needs “to take a breath and reconnect” with himself. He then talks a bit about the style of the NIN/JA Tour setlist-wise and promises that there will be a few surprises (including cover songs). The entire interview is long and really interesting to watch, mainly because of TR‘s very thoughtful answers. It can be downloaded HERE and I will post a streaming embed of it when it becomes available. The NIN/JA 2009 Tour starts this Friday night in Florida … who’s going?

UPDATE: After the jump, watch the video interview in full …