The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.