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After some media outlets claimed that Fiona Apple abandoned a performance at a Louis Vuitton event in Japan a few days ago, the singer is responding with help from fellow musician Questlove.




As an introduction to Apple's statement, Questlove explained the conflicting battle between being an artist and being a celebrity.




"Celebrity is basking in the cult of personality. Its when your life surpasses your art. True artists create without monetary motivation and pretty much move on their own time. I got true “artist” pals that frankly are f****ps, i know marginally “gifted” people that are geniuses in using their limited resources to maximize their power….and honestly? I’m fascinated. On the other side I’ve seen gifted geniuses make lightening in a bottle an effortless marvel and I’ve scratched my heads figuring out how so and so ascended so fast to their success," wrote Questlove on OKP.




The member of "The Roots" admitted that he can get mixed up in the middle of artist and celebrity.




"Yet i don't find fault with either side–everyone needs a hero. everyone needs creative people to marvel at too. i often find myself in the dead center of this struggle," said the drummer.




Questlove described Apple as a true artist who, in recent events, was put on display in front of a celebrity crazed audience.




"This week i saw two colleagues dance with the devil with less than desirable results," said Questlove, speaking of Apple and probably Dave Chappelle. "One of them (Fiona–who is gun-shy at social media-ing) emailed and requested i release her statement concerning her so called 'meltdown' last week."




This was followed up by Apple's official statement.






"If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, if you could tweet to the twits who call themselves journalists(example Chris Martins of sit-and-Spin Magazine) that I FINISHED MY SET!!! I did my job, and they should do theirs too–They all miss the fact that there is a difference between the back-of-the-room-chatter that is simply annoying,–and the operatic drunken blather, or the heckling that is really just INTERRUPTING that makes it impossible for us to do our jobs. I hope your readers are already hip to the fact that they are consistently lied to… no apologies," said Apple.