Quotes By Fiona Apple

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

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.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

What's really good is African drum music.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

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.

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.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

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.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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