I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.