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The worst pain in the world is shame.

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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
Composer
Jazz Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
Fiona Apple Maggart
Shame
Worst
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World

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Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
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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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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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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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My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
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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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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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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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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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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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What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?
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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.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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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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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.
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