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[[Trent Reznor]] and Amos originally met in mutual admiration for each other's respective debut albums, sometime in the early nineties. They recognized similar approaches in emotional expression, despite vastly different musical styles. Both artists influenced the other's work in some way; Reznor even admitted that he would listen to ''Little Earthquakes'' every day while recording ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' [http://www.thanatopsic.org/music/trivial/tori-trent-rmta.html] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMEKppnpV8] From there a collaboration formed: Reznor contributed vocals to Amos's single "Past The Mission" for her 1994 album ''Under The Pink.'' His vocals on the track were uncharacteristically, and somewhat unrecognizably, soft and pleasant, low in the mix of the song's choruses. The song was about finding hope in a relationship after trauma, as well as the supposed relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
Amos has also performed the first two lines of "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" in concert—mainly between 1994 and 1999—and has made allusions to Nine Inch Nails in her solo work, most notably in "Precious Things" from ''Little Earthquakes'' and "Caught a Lite Sneeze" from ''Boys for Pele.'' In a 1994 issue of ''Vox'' Magazine, she listed ''The Downward Spiral'' as one of her top 10 favorite albums.[https://www.yessaid.com/timeline8.html]She also did a live [[Covers Of NIN|cover]] of "[[Something I Can Never Have]]" in 2014.
The two were obviously once close friends, and several interviews from the mid nineties detail random encounters between the two, such as the "cursed chicken" story. [http://www.thanatopsic.org/music/trivial/tori-trent-rmta.html] Some mutual fans of the artists speculate their friendship once reached beyond that into romantic territory, based on these and other interviews, various NIN and Amos lyrics, and other similarities in work. Their relationship is currently undetermined, though it is viewed as broken, based on the same aforementioned things.