“I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.”

American singer-songwriter

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. Her work has reached a wide audience since the 1990s, and she is known for a career of sustained commercial success and critical recognition. All five of her albums have reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200, and by 2021 she had sold more than 15 million records worldwide. She has received three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Video Award, and three of her albums appear on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.