Quotes by Fiona Apple

About Fiona Apple:

Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. Classically trained on piano as a child, Apple began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, written when Apple was seventeen, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (with an additional six nominations) for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn... (1999), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and went certified platinum.
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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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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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I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, an...

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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

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

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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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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.

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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

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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, I'...

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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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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people ...

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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

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But I honestly don't 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 can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the cri...

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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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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

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What's really good is African drum music.

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Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

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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 n...

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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

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Author Bio

  • NameFiona Apple
  • Descriptionsinger-songwriter, musician
  • BornSeptember 13, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Composer; Pianist; Writer; Songwriter; Jazz Musician