Fiona Apple Quotes

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

I just want to feel everything.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

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

I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

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 wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Divas are not made, they are born.

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

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

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 keep living this day like the next will never come.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

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

We are like a wishing well
And a bolt of electricity

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

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

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

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

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

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

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

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

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

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

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

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter,

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.

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

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

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.

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

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

And I could liken you to a lot of things
But I always come around
'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl
I know the fiction of the fix

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

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

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

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

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

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

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

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time,
But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

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

Home is where my habits have a habitat

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

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

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

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

I'm not a control freak.

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

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

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

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

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

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

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

What's really good is African drum music.

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 read on the Internet that I was dead.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

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

Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.

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.

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

Don't waste your crazy!

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

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

I don't think what I look like is relevant.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

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

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate

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

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

My mind goes to tragedy first.

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

Go with yourself.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?