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'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 was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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.
If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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 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 don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
I'm not a control freak.
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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 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 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.
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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.
