Fiona apple

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

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.

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...

What's really good is African drum music.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

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....