Quote

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.