I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.