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.

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• Joanna Newsom:

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

• Joanna Newsom:

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

• Joanna Newsom:

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

• Joanna Newsom:

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

• 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 can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

• Joanna Newsom:

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

• Joanna Newsom:

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

• Joanna Newsom:

  I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are com

• Joanna Newsom:

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