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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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I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.
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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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I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up
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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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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 got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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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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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
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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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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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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'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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I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
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