Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggartis an American singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. Classically trained on piano as a child, Apple began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, written when Apple was seventeen, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn..., produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and went certified platinum...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 September 1977
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
You got your game, made your shot, and you got away With a lot, but I'm not turned on So put away that meat you're selling.
My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world.
I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're not at all what you seem.
Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead
Now that my album is finally finished, I am very, very excited to have people hear what we did. I am so proud of it, and all of us who worked on it.
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.
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.