You know-portraits are odd things.” “How do you figure?” I asked. “Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Character isn’t something you talk about; it’s something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

I guess what’s most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn’t always pretty, and our music reflected that.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can’t ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

He played against the bigger guys at Gonzaga, and here he had to work on his quickness to guard smaller players. That puts him in the best of situations now.

It's an attractive place to be. But it takes a lot of effort to go after a small market.