Fiona Apple Quotes

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Fiona Apple

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 13, 1977

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.

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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.

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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

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

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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

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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.

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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

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