Fiona Apple Quotes

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

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

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'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

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

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

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 also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

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

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

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

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.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?"

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.

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

Cause I don't appreciatePeople whoDon't appreciate

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?