I am always trying to write.
Joanna Newsom

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.
Joanna Newsom

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Joanna Newsom

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Joanna Newsom

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

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

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

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.
Joanna Newsom

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

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.
Joanna Newsom


I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
Joanna Newsom

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Joanna Newsom

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

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

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.
Joanna Newsom

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
Joanna Newsom

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

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
Joanna Newsom

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Joanna Newsom

I would happy for someone to download my music.
Joanna Newsom