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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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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
Composer
Jazz Musician
Pianist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
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Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
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You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, You're right. My mother wrote these songs.
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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
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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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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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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 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 let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.
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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 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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I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death the echo I created outlasted my last breath.
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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 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 don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I just want to feel everything.
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