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

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

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

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun's light off as its own.

I would happy for someone to download my music.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

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.

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

In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness?

The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Not axe nor hammer
Tumor, tremor
Can take it away, and it remains
It remains

The fire breather is beneath the clover, and beneath his breathing there is cold clay forever

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

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

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

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

I am always trying to write.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

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

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

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

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

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.