Fiona Apple

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have read more

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.

[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy read more

[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine read more

[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... That's all I did.

And I will pretend
that I don't know of your sins
until you are ready to confess
but all the time
I'll know

And I will pretend
that I don't know of your sins
until you are ready to confess
but all the time
I'll know