Quotes By Fiona Apple

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

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.

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.

What's really good is African drum music.

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.

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

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.