“There’s a lot of freedom of being an outsider or not being the metalcore sweetheart for your whole life. Because then you don’t really care about those people’s validation, because they didn’t accept you to begin with… It’s kind of like when you’re the nerd kid that finally gets to sit at the cool kid table, if you feel like you’re a nerd and that you don’t belong there, you might feel really self-conscious sitting there.”
Happy 33rd birthday, Courtney LaPlante! (February 26th, 1989)

















