Quotes By Fiona Apple

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

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

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

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

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.

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

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.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not a control freak.

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.

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.

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?