'' “...for the first time in my life, I wanted to break away from the idea of opening up my journal and transferring that into song lyrics. And I really thought about what was at the forefront of my concern, and, at the state I'm at right now, at the age I'm at, just the state of being an American citizen, a lot of concern I have about the direction the country's headed in, and uh, kind of the erosion of freedoms that seems like we're experiencing, and the way we treat the world and our own citizens felt like something I needed to comment on.” '' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8FXnur5Z4]
A subsection of [[nin.com]], [[yearzero.nin.com]], was created and contains various things Year Zero-related. A string of mysterious websites has also been discovered around the internet related to the album. Learn more at the [[Year Zero Research]] pageand view the [[Timeline of Year Zero Discovery|timeline of discovery]] for a general overview of how things unfolded.
==Trent Reznor on ''Year Zero''==