Fiona Apple Quotes

"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."

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

"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."

"When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody."

"I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends."

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

"You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?"

"I want to be like the patron saint of reality."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day."

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

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