Fiona Apple Quotes

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 think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!

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.

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

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

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 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.

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?"

If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

When I watch TV, and TCM isn't on, I just switch channels and look at all the information about everything. The internet is perfect for that, which is why I didn't really want to get a computer in the first place. I thought, "If I have a computer and know about this whole Google thing, I am not going to be able to sit still for a second; I'm going to think about something and then have to look it up." I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

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

I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

The worst pain in the world is shame.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

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

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

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

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.