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 …
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About Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. All five of her albums have reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200, and as of 2021, she has sold over 15 million records worldwide. Apple has received numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Video Award. Three of her albums appear on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Fiona AppleThe quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
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.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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 …
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone.…
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 …
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?