Fiona Apple Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?

  Fiona Apple

  Writing, Piano, Want

• I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Feel Better

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Wanted

• 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.

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

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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

  Fiona Apple

  Writing, Knows

• There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Months

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

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Want

• I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

  Fiona Apple

  Writing, Dinner, Stories

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

• 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

• 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

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