Top 100 Fiona Apple Quotes
#1. If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
Shirley Manson
#2. I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.
Banks
#4. Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.
Jennifer Damiano
#5. I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.
Sky Ferreira
#6. I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.
Christian Serratos
#7. 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!
Fiona Apple
#8. I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
Fiona Apple
#9. 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.
Fiona Apple
#10. I keep living this day like the next will never come.
Fiona Apple
#11. The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
Fiona Apple
#12. 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.
Fiona Apple
#13. 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.
Fiona Apple
#14. I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.
Fiona Apple
#15. I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
Fiona Apple
#16. 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.
Fiona Apple
#17. 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.
Fiona Apple
#18. 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.
Fiona Apple
#19. 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.
Fiona Apple
#20. Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
Fiona Apple
#21. My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.
Fiona Apple
#22. And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
Fiona Apple
#23. 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?
Fiona Apple
#24. 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.
Fiona Apple
#26. 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.
Fiona Apple
#27. I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again
so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.
Fiona Apple
#28. 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.
Fiona Apple
#29. I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple
#30. 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.
Fiona Apple
#32. 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.
Fiona Apple
#33. There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple
#34. I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,
Fiona Apple
#35. 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.
Fiona Apple
#36. 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.
Fiona Apple
#37. I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up
Fiona Apple
#38. Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
Fiona Apple
#39. 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.
Fiona Apple
#40. 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.
Fiona Apple
#41. It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.
Fiona Apple
#42. Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.
Fiona Apple
#44. I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
Fiona Apple
#45. Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.
Fiona Apple
#46. 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.
Fiona Apple
#47. 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.
Fiona Apple
#48. 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.
Fiona Apple
#49. I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
Fiona Apple
#50. The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple
#51. 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.
Fiona Apple
#52. I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.
Fiona Apple
#53. 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.
Fiona Apple
#54. The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
Fiona Apple
#55. 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.
Fiona Apple
#56. 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.
Fiona Apple
#57. 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.
Fiona Apple
#58. I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.
Fiona Apple
#60. 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.
Fiona Apple
#61. The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong; only true and false.
Fiona Apple
#62. I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple
#63. Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
Fiona Apple
#64. Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
Fiona Apple
#65. No, I don't believe in the wasting of time,
But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine
Fiona Apple
#66. You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
Fiona Apple
#67. Love is love, and there will never be too much.
Fiona Apple
#69. My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.
Fiona Apple
#70. 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.
Fiona Apple
#71. 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.
Fiona Apple
#72. 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.
Fiona Apple
#74. 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.
Fiona Apple
#75. 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.
Fiona Apple
#76. I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
Fiona Apple
#77. I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
Fiona Apple
#78. I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
#79. Home is where my habits have a habitat
Fiona Apple
#80. Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.
Fiona Apple
#81. 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.
Fiona Apple
#82. I read on the Internet that I was dead.
Fiona Apple
#83. You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple
#84. My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
Fiona Apple
#85. 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.
Fiona Apple
#86. It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter,
Fiona Apple
#87. I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
Fiona Apple
#88. 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.
Fiona Apple
#89. In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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#90. I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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#91. 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.
Fiona Apple
#92. No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
Fiona Apple
#93. I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
Fiona Apple
#94. How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?
Fiona Apple
#95. 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.
Fiona Apple
#96. 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.
Fiona Apple
#97. I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple
#98. 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.
Fiona Apple
#99. I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
Fiona Apple
#100. 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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