Fiona Apple Quotes

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

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And 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. And when you know yourself, you know life.

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

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. But in the long run, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt. That's what I said at the awards there: "Go with yourself." And that's what I did.

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

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

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

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.

It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.

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

Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.

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. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

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

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

Home is where my habits have a habitat

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

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

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

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

"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

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