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

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.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

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

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 am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

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