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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

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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 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 had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I would never kill myself, but you can kind of let yourself die.
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I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up
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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'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 stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.
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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 wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.
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Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar I don't get paparazzi around me.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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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 calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
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