Fiona Apple Quotes

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

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

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

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.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

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

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.

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

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

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

I'm not a control freak.

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.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

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.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

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

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

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

I'm not a functional person because 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.

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

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

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

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.

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

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.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

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

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 keep living this day like the next will never come.

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 never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

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

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

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

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

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

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.

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