Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

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

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.

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.

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

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.