Fiona Apple Quotes

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Fiona Apple

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 13, 1977

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

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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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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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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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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. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

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I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

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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 really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

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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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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

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I don't think what I look like is relevant.

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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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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

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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. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

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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 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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