[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.
[Elizondo] made these really simple tracks to start off, and I really got excited, ... I knew all along that those two songs I kept exactly the same were perfect. 'Parting Gift' I wrote when we were finishing up, and it was recorded in one take.
[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.
[While promoting her first album her attitude was,] Please like me, please understand me, ... The second time was: 'Please don't misunderstand me again. Please understand me this time.' And this time it's really about me taking something that's been so stressful in the past and making it joyful. I don't want to be suffering all the time.
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
But he washed me ashore and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me.
Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.
For a while I was looking forward to having to get another job, ... I had this fantasy about applying to this place in upstate New York, Green Chimneys. They do occupational therapy with kids, using farm animals. I thought that was something I could be passionate about. But music just kept on coming back.
He said 'it's all in your head' and I said 'so's everything' but he didn't get it.
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment. I can't think about anybody outside of country music that's even attempted to do an anthem-type song that's reflective of what's going on.
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.
I say tell me the truth, but you don´t dare. I tell you how I feel but you don´t care. You say love is a hell you cannot bear. Well I say give me mine back and then go there, for all I care!
I was freaked out about it, ... I felt guilty; I felt really moved that people cared about me that much, but I'm still kind of paralyzed because I can't do it the way I want to do it, and I opted not to talk to anybody because I thought it might [mess] up my chances of getting things to go right.
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