Fiona Apple Quotes
"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."
- Fiona Apple
"I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Nothing, Sarcastic, Therapy)
"I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21."
- Fiona Apple
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Work, Forget, Months)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Advice, Mistakes, Want)
"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Politics, Entertainment)
"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Care)
"I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not."
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"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Thought, People)
"For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows."
- Fiona Apple
"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Job, Play, Songs)
"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Now, Years)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Thought, People, Saying, Sexuality, Talking)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Time, Right, Sexuality)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Trust, People, Talk)
"I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me."
- Fiona Apple
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Body, Day, End, Hate)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Time, Songs)
"I'm not a control freak."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Control)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Goal, Difference)
"I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something."
- Fiona Apple
"I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Love, Now, School)
"I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Self)
"I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Song)
"I want to be like the patron saint of reality."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Reality, Want)
"I still don't know what Episcopalian means."
- Fiona Apple
"I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Development, Corruption, Want)
"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Mistake)
"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Respect)
"What's really good is African drum music."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Music, African)
"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Children)
"The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Music, Right, Wrong)
"The quick success was a bit strange to get used to."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Success, Quick)
"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Age, People, Bugs, Right)
"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Fun)
"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."
- Fiona Apple
"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."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Hurt, Now)
"Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Choice, Nothing, Will)
"I read on the Internet that I was dead."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Internet)
"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Life, People, Saying)
"I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Right)
"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Limitations)