Quotes By Fiona Apple

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

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

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

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

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 read on the Internet that I was dead.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

What's really good is African drum music.

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