85 Quotes by Joanna Newsom

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

I can bear a lot but not that pall

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not.

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.