Words matter. These are the best Fiona Apple Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
In a sense it’s a lot crazier when you’re on the road and it’s a lot less stable, but it’s actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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’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.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way.
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
I don’t go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I’m not really human.
As a person who performs on stage, it’s good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it’s like you’re messing with an animal when it’s eating.
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.
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 don’t know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that’s why we’re alive.
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’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 never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.
In a strange way, I’m way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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 also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
I’m not the Queen. I’m not a huge superstar; I don’t get paparazzi around me.
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?
What’s really good is African drum music.
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.
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 walk my dog at dawn because I don’t like people to be around.
I don’t care what people do. I don’t care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
I can’t remember writing any of the songs that I’ve written.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it’s not as bad anymore.
And if I’m being honest, I don’t think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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.
There aren’t many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it’s cool if you’re the bad girl.
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan.
I wasn’t very ambitious as a child. I’m still not.
If I have one success in my relationship history, it’s with the people who listen to my music. I think that they’ll be there with me forever, and I’ll be there with them forever. And I’m totally satisfied with that.
