Fiona Apple Quotes
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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.
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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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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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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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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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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.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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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.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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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.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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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.
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I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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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.
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.