People Are Often Afraid For Me. They

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 A Deep Rooted Folk Sensibility That I Can't Get Away From Completely.

The So-called Positive Press Has In Some Ways Been More Difficult To Swallow Than The Negative.

I Recorded Harp First Or Singing First. I Recorded It All Together. Part Of The Reason Is That I Don't Know How To Play The Songs Without Also Singing. I Forget How They Progress. I Don't Think That Any Of Them Are Verse, Chorus, Verse, And So On. They Are Not Simple.

I Have A Voice That's Obviously Untrained - And I Think Untrainable - So I Kind Of Secreted It Away For A Long Time. Actually, I Would Write Songs With Lyrics When I Was Younger, But I Would Just Sing In My Head.