76 Fiona Apple Quotes
I'm not a control freak
I read on the Internet that I was dead
Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5
What's really good is African drum music
I want to be like the patron saint of reality
Six years away from it really dulled my skill
No matter what I do, everything is going to work out
When I was a kid, I used to play piano every day
I used to write stories when I was in my room
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while

Fiona Apple quotes with pictures

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to
Weird things happen that end up hurting your feelings
I still don't know what Episcopalian means
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
I just feel like somebody's rifling through my laundry basket
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 would really like to go back to school. I would love it now
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?
I had been thinking of maybe trying to do something else with my life
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano
What if I record something and I love it, and then they own more of my stuff?
I went to Hamilton High for one year, in California. That was an awful year
Let them know that there is no proper way to kill and cook these beautiful birds
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment
I don't think anyone had it out for me or anything, I was just misunderstood
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice
No matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt
I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me
I figured that the second you leave the room you're pretty much replaced by whatever else is there
Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of a human life
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
I don't really know that much about pianos. I have a great one, It's an upright and It's a Steinway
Why do I have this reputation for being so sullen and sad? I was so miserable in all the photo shoots
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe
I started to think that a woman's body was her curse, that it was just the bait that attracted all these sharks
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows
It was a personal mission to do that video. To get up in front of all those gorgeous girls and strut my stuff
I think it really demonstrates the power of production when you can see a song in a completely different way
Some days I have a piano day, and some nights I have a piano night. I'll do it for a while, but It's very, very rare
At this point it's my duty not to crumble and close off. I've gotten this far because of my willingness to make myself vulnerable
We had made up all these demo tapes, we made up 67 or 76. I can't remember. It was the smallest amount that you could order
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
I have no sense of what gets on radio or MTV. I have not listened to those kinds of radio stations, or I have not watched any MTV in years
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
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 have an intention with how the songs are supposed to come out, but I don't know how to articulate it, musically, with other instruments
I didn't want to blow my shot at making the record the way I wanted to. I was feeling kind of like the company wasn't really excited to have me
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
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 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 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'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 hate the fact that celebrities are supposedly a higher class of human being. That's the way I felt growing up, and that's the way I think a lot of people feel
I used to learn chords off of guitar chords. In songbooks they have the little guitar things, even though I can't play the guitar. I would work it out from the little dots
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'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 don't know how I would feel old or young. I don't understand how people can really answer questions like that. I have no basis of comparison, I've never been anyone 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 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
Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts limits on what my personality should be in public?
Making the video was a huge step for me, because I'm not comfortable doing any of that. When we were shooting, they tried to make me pretty, but that's not what I do: I am paid to sing and perform
People underestimate how powerful the media is for young people who grow up watching a lot of television. Through the media, we've established this standard of what every human being should look up to

Fiona Apple sayings and pictures

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
Part of me feels like I'm handling it a lot better than I used to, because I'm just simply not crying all the time. But I also feel like I'm not really handling it as well because I feel completely ridiculous
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