249 Quotes by Fiona Apple

You’re all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren’t going to like me if I didn’t.

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 didn’t want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

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

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there’s the sophomore record, then there’s this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I used to love to make things – you couldn’t drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine.