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“I thought it would be really fun to start a business. I wanted to show my kids that if you put your mind to something you can do anything. Our children love it, and I feel like we are continuing this for them even.”
“It’s important that Food Not Bombs is accessible to everyone. It’s why we have it at the train station so that you don’t need a car to get here. It’s why we don’t ask for ID or proof of looking for a job in order to receive food.”
“This place means a lot to me, and showed me who I really wanted to be in life, which is a skateboarder. I’ve been here so many years and I don’t get sick of it.”
The folks behind Woodstown’s Farmers & Bankers Brewing aim to make their watering hole the community gathering spot in Salem County
“I never had anyone in the music industry before care about my music and then quite a few people did. It didn’t bring much of anything or a label, but it gave me a sense of, ‘Oh, I gotta see this through now.’”
“It’s better to believe in what you do because any career will have elements of spite and battle to it. But it’s important that what you do brings you joy and satisfaction.”
“It’s been decades since ‘girls to the front’ started, and we still have to yell that. Why are we still screaming that? This should have already been solved. We want to create a space that is accessible to women, to nonbinary punks, LGBTQIA punks, and people of color.”
“It’s a helpful way to work through stuff and make something out of a situation that can be difficult. Like, at least I got this song out of it.’’
Silversun Pickups come to The Wellmont Theater in Montclair on Nov. 5.
“All of these students were beating up Barney, and ripping apart Barney dolls. At the end the newscaster was like, ‘That’s the future of our country right there,’ and I was like, we are living in that future now.”
“One thing about spending years writing about the most obnoxious, obscure, abrasive music possible was trying to convince a mainstream audience that this was worth their time. It was really good training to convince those who are apathetic about unions that unions should matter and they are pretty cool.’’
“A lot of people who play music with me, and a lot of people in town, are like, ‘Ella’s the baby.’ But these songs are like, ‘Oh, she’s growing up now.'”