Fiona Apple

Musician

81 Quotes

If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

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.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

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

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

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

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

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

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 think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

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

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

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

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

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

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

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

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

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