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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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.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

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 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'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.

Fiona Apple

I'm not a control freak.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

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.

Fiona Apple

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

Fiona Apple

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

Fiona Apple

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

Fiona Apple

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Fiona Apple

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

Fiona Apple

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

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

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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