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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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Singer-Songwriter
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Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
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I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.
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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 don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.
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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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Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.
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Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
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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 really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. But in the long run, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt. That's what I said at the awards there: Go with yourself. And that's what I did.
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Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
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I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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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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Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.
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