The whole world wants you to be miserable. It wants you to put your head down, sigh to yourself, and give up on being happy. And I know just as well as anyone that sometimes giving up seems like the only option. But if you take one thing from this record, I hope it’s this: Don’t give those mother-fuckers an inch. Stand your ground every chance you get because everybody deserves a chance to be happy.

The Wonder Years, scrawled on the B-Side of the vinyl copy of The Upsides —