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Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.'

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.