[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. |
I'm actually doing great and I'm very happy. |