Joanna Newsom

“I would happy for someone to download my music.”

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

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

“People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.”

“I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.”

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

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

“I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.”

“Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.”

“I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.”

“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 have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.”

“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.”

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