The main character didn't exactly know what was going on, but the reader does. It's all portrayed in an interesting way, all the huge issues in the book, like civil right, come from a children's perspective. It's an interesting way to tell a story.

You know, you hear storytelling like in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and it just… it makes your mind wander. It makes you feel like it makes your world more vast. And you think about more things and greater concepts after you read something like that.

Listening to her talk at seminars, especially one that I YouTubed, where she was talking about trying to create her followup project, it made me cry. It was so inspirational.

You will see a lot of references from like Romeo and Juliet, Scarlet Letter kind of referenced in my songs, and that's from my reading.

Some people call [the main character] weird, but no matter how much they make fun of her, she continues to be herself.

I’m just so obsessed with the whole history of J.F.K. and R.F.K.

The first thing I did was read the first book in about two days. 

You will see a lot of references from like Romeo and Juliet, Scarlet Letter kind of referenced in my songs, and that's from my reading.

I read the Fault in Our Stars, and I loved Hazel Grace I think she is so smart, sarcastic and self-aware.