"More than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice"
—Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

You’re one of my biggest inspirations, you’re one of the reasons I perform. I understood your life, it was chaotic and it was a storm and in that storm there was no way out. Sometimes we get used to storms, and we keep allowing them to circle around us and swallow us whole even though we don’t deserve it and the only thing that can give us air during this intense time is something that makes us smile. For you that was your children, your work, your fans. Applause are the sound of love, you’re right. If love had a sound it would be many, it would be bells and songs, it would be laughter and applause and silence and leaves falling and so many other things. I get it, and I get you and I think someone needed to tell you that and just look you in the eye and say “You’re beautiful and you’re not a hunchback and I understand you and you need a friend. I can be that friend, I can be someone you can call at some obscene hour and talk to” I would’ve been that friend. Your music and your art all of it, brings so much joy to so many people and yet there are still those that speak ill of you. It’s sick, and I know it never goes away. Even the author of this book accused you of some horrific way of treating your children, and that’s wrong because they grew up and did their own thing and the speak of you with the highest regard. They love you and they miss you. I didn’t even know you and I miss you. I think you can miss someone and not know them personally only because you understand their soul. You can read their heart and it makes sense. I hope you are over the rainbow and you’re smiling and laughing and singing your heart out and you got to have all the ice cream sodas you wanted because you never got to do that while you were alive. Love always