Fiona Apple Quotes
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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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.
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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?
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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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.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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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.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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I'm not a control freak.
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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.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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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.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.