249 Quotes by Fiona Apple

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

"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

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

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.

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

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

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

And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know