Fiona Apple

"The way I feel about music-- any song, any style-- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lot simpler if you just tell the truth."

Fiona is a native New Yorker, and she comes from an artistic family. Her father is an actor and her mother is a real renaissance woman-- singer, dancer, nutritionist, fitness trainer, and cook. Fiona came to LA to spend time with her father, complete her high school education through independent study, and to do a demo.

While Fiona Apple's lyrics may be interpreted in many ways, the overriding message of her debut album is that life is the sum of experience-- painful and joyous, tangible and emotional, positive and negative. "My album is called Tidal partly because all this has hit me like a tidal wave, but also because 'tidal' refers to ebbing and flowing, and that's really what life is, a constant ebb and flow." For Fiona Apple, the tide is high-- and the time is now.

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