Fiona Apple Quotes - Page 7

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

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

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

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

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

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

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.

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

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

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

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

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

Put a little love here in my void.

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

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.