Fiona Apple Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, Uncomfortable

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Parenting, Wanted

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

  Fiona Apple

  Zebras, Rain, Stripes

  Song: Anything We Want, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

  Fiona Apple

  Sweet, Crazy, Fighting

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

  Fiona Apple

  Past, Night, Doors

  Song: Not About Love, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

  Fiona Apple

  Writing, Knows

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• In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Healthy, Stable

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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.

  Fiona Apple

  Hate, Mirrors, House

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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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 are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, People

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

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• I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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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.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Enough Time

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

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• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  Fiona Apple

  Want, Entertainment, Knows

  "Are Katrina anthems blowing in the wind?". www.today.com. October 7, 2005.

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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.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Wanted, Like Me

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 04, 2005.

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• We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

  Fiona Apple

  Wish, Electricity, Wells

  Song: Werewolf, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Want

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• Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

  Fiona Apple

  Years, Looks, Five

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• For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

  Fiona Apple

  Sexuality, Developing, My Own

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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, and so I just take my time.

  Fiona Apple

  Needs, Kind, Problem

  "I Don't Really Have A Plan". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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

  Fiona Apple

  People, Whole Life, Has Beens

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

  Fiona Apple

  Time, Loses

  Song: To Your Love, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999

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• I'm not a control freak.

  Fiona Apple

  Freak, Control Freak

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

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• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  Fiona Apple

  Looks, Dare, Look At Me

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  Fiona Apple

  Strange, Used, Advocating

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