Fiona Apple
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.Collection: Graduation
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.Collection: Friendship
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.Collection: Politics
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.Collection: Parenting
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.Collection: Sad
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Romantic
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.Collection: Respect
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Trust
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.
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.
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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.
How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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 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'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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 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 want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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.
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.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
I'm not a control freak.
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.
I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.