In a Rolling Stone interview, Trent Reznor, the lead musician of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, muses on how his anti-religion stance helped lead him into his lapse into depression:

In my head, that spilled over into an utter-chaos outlook: "I don't need anything, I don't need anyone, and I don't need to believe there's any reason to anything." It was a pretty self-centered approach. I was lonely and had a bleak outlook on everything. I think people have an inherent need for belonging, to feel they are part of something.