The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

Resolve and thou art free.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.