I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky