Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.

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 have writing songs on my own for about six years.

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

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

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

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.