Now that my album is finally finished, I am very, very excited to have people hear what we did. I am so proud of it, and all of us who worked on it. |
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. |
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. |
They basically wanted me to audition my songs, |
This a real but minor issue involving a vendor-quality problem in a small number of units, |
You got your game, made your shot, and you got away With a lot, but I'm not turned on So put away that meat you're selling. |
[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. |