Greg Iles Quotes

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

Coming back to Guess is so natural for me; they're my family. I always love being back, and to be able to come home and be in Malibu across the street from my high school shooting this campaign is absolutely amazing and just feels like the right thing.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.

Everybody kind of feels something for where they grew up, where they came from.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

For me, I'm still always that kid from Bolton.

It was really cool coming back here to Chase Field. I played here in high school and went to a lot of games as a kid.

I had a great time at Michigan State, but no four years will compare to Saginaw High.

John Candy gave me a Hard Rock Cafe jacket, which was awesome because I was really from a very rural, small town, and it seemed so exciting to me. I think my mom still has that jacket.

Marystown, in Newfoundland, it's where began for me. It's where most of my family still lives and where a lot of my supporters are from.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

I grew up in a small town.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.