Quotes By Fiona Apple

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

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.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

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.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

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

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.

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

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

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.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

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.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

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.

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.

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.