Quotes by Fiona Apple

Home is where my habits have a habitat

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.

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and Hell Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring Theres 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 Wont Matter, Cuz Youll Know That Youre Right

I let the beast in too soon I dont know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling its so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Shouldve put em, shouldve put em on againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last nights phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

Cause I dont appreciatePeople whoDont appreciate

No, Ive never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

There arent many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks its cool if youre the bad girl.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, Im sorry, you have to take drivers ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Whats really good is African drum music.

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

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, Im going to get them out of my way.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, I cant be friends with you, youre too intense, youre too sad all the time. I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who werent my friends would become my friends.

You know, Ive always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

But I honestly dont read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I cant hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.