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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.

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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It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.
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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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Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
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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 never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.
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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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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My mind goes to tragedy first.
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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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I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.
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I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.
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The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.
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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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Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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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 used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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