I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

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

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said