Latest Fiona Apple Quotes from Interviews

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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Honest, Evolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who always has the right light on their face; never has bags under their eyes; never says anything inappropriate. Somebody who always somehow turns out perfect. I hate the fact that celebrities are supposedly a higher class of human being. That's the way I felt growing up, and that's the way I think a lot of people feel. So now that I'm in this position, I want to change things. I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  Fiona Apple

  Growing Up, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, "You're right. My mother wrote these songs."

  Fiona Apple

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are lots of poster children for angst. But there aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. But what about the people who are really not feeling that great? Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts these limits on what my personality should be in public?

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

  Fiona Apple

  Long, Appreciated, Women Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Assuming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're famous weird things will happen that end up hurting your feelings. I'll get a letter from somebody I knew a while ago and I'll be really touched. Then I'll turn over the envelope and their business card falls out.

  Fiona Apple

  Hurt, Fall, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

  Fiona Apple

  Fun, Ego, Truth Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. But in the long run, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt. That's what I said at the awards there: "Go with yourself." And that's what I did.

  Fiona Apple

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to be one of those people who claim to hate labels, but it's true. I even feel that we've got it all wrong with the whole gay/straight thing. There is a spectrum. Everybody is completely different. Some people are way over on this side of the spectrum, some are on the other side, and some are crossed in certain ways.

  Fiona Apple

  Hate, Gay, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I came in from Paris recently, for some reason the guy from customs wanted to know what kind of music I wrote. I was like, "I really want to please you so you don't keep me here, but I have no answer to that."

  Fiona Apple

  Guy, Kind, Reason

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

• When I watch TV, and TCM isn't on, I just switch channels and look at all the information about everything. The internet is perfect for that, which is why I didn't really want to get a computer in the first place. I thought, "If I have a computer and know about this whole Google thing, I am not going to be able to sit still for a second; I'm going to think about something and then have to look it up." I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Perfect, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced. And I don't mean influenced by copying - I'd be influenced because I wouldn't want to do what someone else is doing. I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything.

  Fiona Apple

  Strong, Mean, Worry

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I can spend a lot of time on the internet as a substitute for TV. This is part of the reason why I'm not a good girlfriend - you can't sit down with me and watch a movie. I hate being strapped down to stay with something.

  Fiona Apple

  Girlfriend, Hate, Good Girl

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I would never kill myself, but you can kind of let yourself die.

  Fiona Apple

  Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

• My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of going to see the movie Tap, with Gregory Hines. During one scene, he's in jail, and there's some water dripping down, and he starts tap dancing. I just like that feeling of: "I'm in charge, I can do whatever I want."

  Fiona Apple

  Memories, Dancing, Water

  Source: pitchfork.com

• If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

  Fiona Apple

  Teaching, Kids, Choices

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

  Fiona Apple

  Believe, Stupidity, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

• One of my friends said to me, "Oh yeah, of course you aren't writing." So I was like, "The next time you see me, I'm gonna have a new song." 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.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Next Time

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, Uncomfortable

  Source: pitchfork.com

• For many years, I was a really heavy drinker, but people don't know about that because I'm by myself all the time. Recently, I didn't drink for eight or nine months, and I learned that alcohol was quadrupling the embarrassing moments - those moments when you're drunk and you say something you remember the next morning and feel embarrassed about.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, People, Drunk

  Source: pitchfork.com

• At my lowest moments, I think of people who come to shows. I still get very sad and sometimes I feel like I have no friends, but when that happens now, I'll think of people whose names or faces I don't know - they're my friends and they love me. I've got them. It really does save me. I still feel awkward, but that's the one thing I can grab onto at my lowest points.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, People, Awkward

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I want to move back to the East Coast. I like Venice, but L.A. is ugly. I would kill myself if I had to look out the window and see some places in L.A. every day.

  Fiona Apple

  Moving, Ugly, Window

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It's weird not having companionship and not having somebody to talk to. I have two goldfish in my hotel room. They said, "If you would like companionship, we can bring you a goldfish." I was like, "Bring me a goldfish!" I have two because when I needed the water changed they brought another one. I was like, "Don't take Desmond!"

  Fiona Apple

  Water, Companionship, Hotel

  Source: pitchfork.com