Quotes from Fiona Apple

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.

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

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.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

I don't think what I look like is relevant.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

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

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

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

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

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

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

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

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

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.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

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.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.