Rick Nielsen Quotes

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.

I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.