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Jon Brion
Jon Brion
Jon Brion, Grand Master Recording Studios, LA 2005
The Paramour, LA 2003
With Fiona Apple, Ocean Way Recording Studios, LA 2003
Do people have the wrong impression of Fiona Apple?
That is definitely the case. It’s just an impression based on what they saw on TV, when she was on an award show making a speech about the world being bullshit. She looks like a mess of trouble, and the songs on her first album are about terrible things that happened to her. People assume that she is a dark and negative person—but as you can see that is not the reality at all.
She’s extremely bright. If something upsets her, she feels it acutely, but she also describes it acutely. She is not what most people would think of as the “difficult artist.” She is not a diva, and she is open to ideas, and it is not a dark soap opera. She treats everyone well, and there is no feeling of a ladder of command common to many recording situations. With many projects, there is almost a class system in the recording studio, but not this one. After all, making records is supposed to be a creative working environment—most of us do this because we didn’t want typical jobs that mirrored the way society works.