Quotes from Fiona Apple

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.

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

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

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

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.

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.

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.

I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

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

What's really good is African drum music.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.