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.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

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

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I thought I could do it kind of quick since songs that I love a lot I can do fast.