Quotes by Fiona Apple

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

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.

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

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

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.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?