I Can't Play My Songs On The

I Am Not Doing Something That It Is Experimental Music In Relation To Classical Music.

Families Of Privilege And Money Would Have Harps In Their Parlors, And Their Cultured Daughters Would Learn To Play. It's Got Such A Strange History. But That Wasn't The Context That I Learned It In, So The Inherent Friction Between That History And The More Humanist Folk-y History Wasn't In My Conscience At All.

I Have Writing Songs On My Own For About Six Years.

I Don't Look At People's Expressions, Because I Still Get Nervous When I Play, Especially When I First Put The Harp Up There. I Just Try To Tune - It Takes Me A Half-hour To Tune, And I Get Nervous If I Look At Anybody When I Do It.

The Very First Walnut Whales Recording Was Recorded Just A Few Weeks After I Had Started Singing, Out Of The Blue, Started Singing. And The Voice, You Can Hear How Uncomfortable I Am With It, And How Terrified I Am With It.