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 don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

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

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

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.