Quotes from Fiona Apple

Home is where my habits have a habitat

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.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

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.

I'm not a control freak.

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.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

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.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

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.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

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

I don't want to give 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.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

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

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

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