And in New York, in particular, there are venues set up for anything I might do. Jane Siberry went down there and found a lot of freedom in what she was able to do performance-wise, so I look forward to that. Singing's just what I wanted to do. When it comes to instrumentation, or how many tracks are on the album, everything is done on the basis of what feels right to get the stuff across. And my not wanting to make the same record twice.
CDs are documents that get played in people's houses and represent the artist.
I couldn't think of anything spoken word that I wanted to go down in that fashion as a document. Which led to her break with the spoken word. The singer knows her early work helped expose performance poetry to a wider audience. The oral tradition has been around for thousands of years and it will continue. When I hear beer commercials ripping off the styles of performance poets who've been around for 10 years, it irks me so much that I have no interest in going in that direction.