Fiona Apple: 'I've always wanted to live facing the truth, taking the truth and turning it into something beautiful. That's a wonderful way for anybody to live. And so I like that the truth of all my life isn't all happy and perfect.'
have no qualms about putting it out and not having a rollout and not being on the charts, or whatever. I'm not worried about that, so let's just push the button and let it go." Also my friend Mikaela [Strauss], aka, she had texted me one day and she just was like"You have to release your album now. People need new music to listen to. We need new music to listen to." And so that made me go"You know what? I actually could do that, because my record's done.
I feel like the songs on this album, they're not just about seizing the chance to speak, they're also about wanting people to really hear you. For the past couple years, there's been this more honest conversation in this country about believing women when they do speak up, and I'm wondering if that's also what you're getting at in this album?
It's interesting hearing you talk about this, because the woman that I hear in these songs is an unapologetic woman. These songs are about"Look I have something to say, so listen to me." So it's interesting to hear you almost have to psych yourself up to speak up. What's that about? But then what happened is I turned to piano, which is also percussion: You hit it, it's got hammers. But on this album, I had everything set up for GarageBand and the band had been coming over to play. There were all these percussion instruments around, just left in my house. With"Newspaper" and"Fetch the Bolt Cutters," those were two of the first things I did on GarageBand.
No, it doesn't. Well actually, it does feel a little bit different because everything is always different when you're told that you can't leave. I was always able to leave before, and I chose not to. And funny enough, right when I'm like"I'm fetching the bolt cutters! I'm gonna leave this house!" It's like"Nope! No you're not!"
Well that teenager that started, I would tell her:"You are on the right track, and there's going to be a lot of people who are going to tell you that what you're doing is stupid. And they're going to be people of authority, and they're going to be the people that you love and they're going to be the people that you trust. Please do not believe them. As genius, or as wonderful, or as loving, or as smart, as worldly, as experienced as they may be, they don't know you.
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