I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

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

I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.