Peer Connection Quotes

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

Sometimes when you meet stars, on one hand you're like, "You're who I'm inspired by, you're who I look up to." On the other hand you're like, "I wanna be in the same kind of shoes that you're in." That's how I've always seen myself. Some of me is star-struck, some of me feels like I'm looking at a peer. They're another person who sees the world the same way I do, who already did it. It's inspiring.

Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.