Top 197 Quotes & Sayings by Fiona Apple
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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.
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
I'm not a control freak.
I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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.
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.
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
What's really good is African drum music.
And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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.
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.
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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 just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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.
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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.
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.
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.
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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