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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.


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.


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.


It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.


In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.


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.


People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.


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


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


I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.


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


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


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


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


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


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 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.


You should listen to a lot of different music.


The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.