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

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 recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.

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.