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

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.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

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

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.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.