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I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

Fiona Apple

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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
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Anything
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Worry
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Whatever
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.
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I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.
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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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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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Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
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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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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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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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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.
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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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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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Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.
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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 dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up
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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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