My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

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.

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

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.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

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