I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed,… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time.… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
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. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
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… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share
