Fiona Apple Quotes:
And if I’m being honest, I don’t think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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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.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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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.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren’t going to like me if I didn’t.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I’m anorexic. I’m so totally not.
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I don’t care what people do. I don’t care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I don’t go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I’m not really human.
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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.
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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.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they’re 21.
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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.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o’clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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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.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don’t realize I’m doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can’t stop. And sometimes I’d play shows on the last run, I’d scratch my neck while I was singing, and I’d horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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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.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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I really don’t think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn’t learn from it.
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I resent limitations. I’m going to be this way for a while.
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I still don’t know what Episcopalian means.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don’t like people to be around.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn’t know how.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it’s not as bad anymore.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, ‘I can’t be friends with you, you’re too intense, you’re too sad all the time.’ I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren’t my friends would become my friends.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I wrote ‘Criminal’ in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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I’m here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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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.
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I’m not a control freak.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve never been to the websites. It’s a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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No, I’ve never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it’s the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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The worst pain in the world is shame. 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.
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There aren’t many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it’s cool if you’re the bad girl.
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What’s really good is African drum music.
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When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
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You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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Who is Fiona Apple?
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter whose five albums, released between 1997 and 2020, have all charted in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.