Fiona Apple > Quotes

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
― Fiona Apple

“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.”
― Fiona Apple

“Home is where my habits have a habitat”
― Fiona Apple

“It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.”
― Fiona Apple

“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right”
― Fiona Apple

“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.”
― Fiona Apple

“I don't want to give 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.”
― Fiona Apple

“You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun”
― Fiona Apple

“Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine”
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“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.”
― Fiona Apple

“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.”
― Fiona Apple

“How can I ask anyone to love me
when all I do is beg to be left alone?”
― Fiona Apple

“I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.”
― Fiona Apple

“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”
― Fiona Apple

“You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.”
― Fiona Apple

“Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.”
― Fiona Apple

“I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.”
― Fiona Apple

“I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?”
― Fiona Apple

“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong; only true and false.”
― Fiona Apple

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

“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.”
― Fiona Apple

“I tell you how I feel
But you don't care
I say tell me the truth
But you don't dare
You say love is a hell
You cannot bear
And I say gimme mine
Back and then go there
For all I care.”
― Fiona Apple, Fiona Apple - Tidal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

“My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights
I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes”
― Fiona Apple

“Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate”
― Fiona Apple

“Go with yourself.”
― Fiona Apple, When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King...

“And I could liken you to a lot of things
But I always come around
'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl
I know the fiction of the fix”
― Fiona Apple

“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.”
― Fiona Apple, Fiona Apple - Tidal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

“But then the dove of hope began its downward slope
And I believed for a moment that my chances
Were approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag.”
― Fiona Apple

“I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up.”
― Fiona Apple