Fiona Apple
I can spend a lot of time on the internet as a substitute for TV. This is part of the reason why I'm not a good girlfriend - you can't sit down with me and watch a movie. I hate being strapped down to stay with something.Collection: Girlfriend
If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.Collection: Teaching
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know somethingCollection: Writing
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.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Past
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the pianoCollection: Song
We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricityCollection: Wish
My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?"Collection: People
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.Collection: Sexuality
My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Running
My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripesCollection: Zebras
Put a little love here in my void.Collection: Sex
Love is a hell you cannot bear.Collection: Love
It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.Collection: Blue
Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chestCollection: Tugging
I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!Collection: Mean
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Phones
Divas are not made, they are born.Collection: Born
These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.Collection: People
When you're famous weird things will happen that end up hurting your feelings. I'll get a letter from somebody I knew a while ago and I'll be really touched. Then I'll turn over the envelope and their business card falls out.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Hurt
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.Collection: People
I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.Collection: Upset
I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.Collection: Art
I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.Collection: Kids
The worst pain in the world is shame.Collection: Pain
I might sound crazy about this but, years ago, my mom told me: "We almost died when you were born. Both of us." I was a Caesarean baby, and the doctor who delivered me later told me, "I opened your mother up, and you were right there. It freaked me out because everything was broken and out-there." I've thought about it a lot - could this have something to do with the fact that I'm only happy when I'm at home and alone? Maybe I was just freaking out for two weeks before I was born, feeling really insecure.Collection: Mom
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.Collection: People
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.Collection: Song
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.Collection: Dream
How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Trying
My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.Collection: Careers
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.Collection: Writing
I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.Collection: Interesting
I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.Collection: Play
Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.Collection: Thinking
I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.Collection: Lying
I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.Collection: Girl
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.Collection: Fall
I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.Collection: Glasses
If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.Collection: Would Be
I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.Collection: Careers