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I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Fiona Apple

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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
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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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Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.
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If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.
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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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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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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
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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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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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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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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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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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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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Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.
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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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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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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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Love is love, and there will never be too much.
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It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.
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I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?
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Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.
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