Fiona Apple Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
-
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
-
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
-
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
-
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
-
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
-
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
-
You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
-
When you have children love is always there in the best form.
-
When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
-
I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
-
L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
-
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
-
I think I'm going to be around awhile.
-
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
-
A hard man is good to find.
-
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
-
I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
-
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
-
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
-
One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.
-
Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.
-
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.
