 From 2006 to 2009, Maloney lived and worked at a silent meditation retreat center in Massachusetts, taking vows of silence for days at a time.According to Maloney, the silence helped her discover songwriting; she wrote her first songs while living at the retreat center.In December 2013, a "New York Times" blog wrote about and shared a video of Maloney performing 'Woodstock' with Darlingside; the writer favorably compared her to Mitchell.