It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

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.

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.

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 would happy for someone to download my music.

I am always trying to write.

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

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

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

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

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

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

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

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

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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