Quotes by Fiona Apple

“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.”

“I say tell me the truth, but you don´t dare. I tell you how I feel but you don´t care. You say love is a hell you cannot bear. Well I say give me mine back and then go there, for all I care!”

“And I will pretendthat I dont know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeIll know”

“Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead”

“Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.”

“[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... Thats all I did.”

“The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.”

“I got my feet on the ground and I dont go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds youre not at all what you seem.”

“My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because theres something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world.”

“He said its all in your head and I said sos everythingbut he didnt get it.”

“I keep letting you back in,how can I explain myself,as painful as this thing has been,I just cant be with no one else”

“Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas, back stabbers do this”

“If you dont ask me out to dinner, I dont eat”

“Since we broke upIm using lipstick againI suck my tonguein remembrance of you.”

“Just cause you feel it, doesnt mean its there.”

When youre surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when youre by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you dont feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like youre really alone.

Its calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I dont 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 theyre your mistakes.

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: Theres never gonna be a room someplace where theres 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. Thatll never happen. Theres nothing interesting about me. I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.