Fiona Apple Quotes (51 Quotes)

While promoting her first album her attitude was, Please like me, please understand me, ... The second time was 'Please don't misunderstand me again. Please understand me this time.' And this time it's really about me taking something that's been so stressful in the past and making it joyful. I don't want to be suffering all the time.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

What's really good is African drum music.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said. It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

I'm not a control freak.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

Elizondo made these really simple tracks to start off, and I really got excited, ... I knew all along that those two songs I kept exactly the same were perfect. 'Parting Gift' I wrote when we were finishing up, and it was recorded in one take.

I was freaked out about it, ... I felt guilty I felt really moved that people cared about me that much, but I'm still kind of paralyzed because I can't do it the way I want to do it, and I opted not to talk to anybody because I thought it might mess up my chances of getting things to go right.

I say tell me the truth, but you dont dare. I tell you how I feel but you dont care. You say love is a hell you cannot bear. Well I say give me mine back and then go there, for all I care

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

For a while I was looking forward to having to get another job, ... I had this fantasy about applying to this place in upstate New York, Green Chimneys. They do occupational therapy with kids, using farm animals. I thought that was something I could be passionate about. But music just kept on coming back.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.