Quotes By Fiona Apple

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

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

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.

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 quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

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

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.