Creativity Quote by Fiona Apple

The line lands like a shrug with teeth: a famous person admitting ignorance, but doing it in a way that quietly indicts the world that expects her to pretend otherwise. Coming from Fiona Apple, whose public persona has always bristled at polish and performance, "I still don't know what Episcopalian means" reads less like a gap in trivia and more like a refusal to launder confusion into competence.

Episcopalian is a word that signals class, region, and a particular kind of American respectability; it’s the denomination you’re supposed to recognize if you grew up adjacent to certain schools, certain dinners, certain codes. Apple’s "still" matters. It implies she’s had plenty of chances to learn it, that the term has floated around her life like background music in a room she never asked to be in. The joke is that she’s not embarrassed. The embarrassment is outsourced to the listener who realizes how many social systems run on casually dropped identifiers.

There’s also an artist’s craft buried in the bluntness. Apple’s songwriting often pulls drama out of small, unpretty admissions, the kind people edit out to sound adult. Here, the comedy is anti-authority: if the word is meant to confer legitimacy, her not knowing it punctures that power. It’s a tiny act of cultural demystification, turning religious label into mere syllables, and turning the speaker into someone you trust precisely because she won’t fake the password.