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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

Fiona Apple

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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
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Jazz Musician
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Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
Fiona Apple Maggart
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a role model, then I'd rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I'm a product of role models that didn't make me feel like I was as good as them.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.
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It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.
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Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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One of my friends said to me, Oh yeah, of course you aren't writing. So I was like, The next time you see me, I'm gonna have a new song. I wrote Criminal in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.
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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of going to see the movie Tap, with Gregory Hines. During one scene, he's in jail, and there's some water dripping down, and he starts tap dancing. I just like that feeling of: I'm in charge, I can do whatever I want.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
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You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, You're right. My mother wrote these songs.
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