“There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.”
Cool
“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
AloneAll Quotes by Fiona Apple
“For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.”
Best“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.”
Dad“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
Alone“No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.”
Parenting“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.”
Funny“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.”
Graduation“You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.”
Experience“The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.”
Success“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”
Good“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.”
Alone“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.”
Music“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.”
Music“Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.”
Alone“I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.”
Politics“If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.”
Respect“The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?”
Age