85 Quotes by Joanna Newsom

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am always trying to write.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

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.