I Want To Make Music That Somehow

I Want To Make Music That Somehow Connects To The Things That I Love In America Music.

My Voice In Combination With The Harp - Which, By The Way, I Use Because I've Played It My Entire Life, Not To Make Some Statement About The Harp - Somehow Has ... Coloured People's Interpretations Of The Music And Projected An Idea Of Childlike Or Fairytale Quality Or Innocence. Which Sometimes Prevents People From Listening To The Songs The Way I Would Like Them To Be Listened To.

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.

In High School, We Studied A Lot Of Poetical Forms. I Was Really Interested In The Math That Was Involved And The Strange Live Break Ups. That Gave Me A Great Amount Of Respect For A Rhymed Stanza.

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.