Fiona Apple Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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!

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#2. I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

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#10. I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

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#11. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.

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#12. You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

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#13. I don't want to give 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.

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#14. Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

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#15. And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

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#16. I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write ... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?

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#17. I'm not a control freak.

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#18. Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

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#19. No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

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

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#21. Don't waste your crazy!

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#22. I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

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#23. I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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.

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#26. I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

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#27. Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

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#28. Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.

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#29. My mind goes to tragedy first.

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

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#31. Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

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#34. I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

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#35. I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. 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.

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#39. I tell you how I feel
But you don't care
I say tell me the truth
But you don't dare
You say love is a hell
You cannot bear
And I say gimme mine
Back and then go there
For all I care.

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#40. 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.

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#41. The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong; only true and false.

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#42. I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

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#43. Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

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

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#45. No, I don't believe in the wasting of time,
But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

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#46. You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

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#47. 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.

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#48. I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

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#49. Put a little love here in my void.

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#50. 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.

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#51. 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.

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#52. I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

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

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#54. I read on the Internet that I was dead.

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#55. Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

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

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#57. I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

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#58. In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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#59. I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

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#60. 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.

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#61. No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

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

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#63. 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.

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#64. 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.

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

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

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#69. 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.

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#70. Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate

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#71. 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.

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#72. Go with yourself.

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#73. The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

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#74. Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

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#75. 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.

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#76. 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.

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#77. What's really good is African drum music.

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#78. It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

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#79. My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

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#80. Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

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

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#82. I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

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#83. I don't think what I look like is relevant.

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#84. Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

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

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#86. He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
Unweighed down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

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#87. I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

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

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#89. The worst pain in the world is shame.

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

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

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#92. What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

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#93. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.

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#94. I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

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