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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
Composer
Jazz Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
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Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
Fiona Apple Maggart
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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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And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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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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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano
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My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.
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Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.
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Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
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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'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
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My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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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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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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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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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 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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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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