Because I don't appreciate People who Don't appreciate

— Fiona Apple

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.

— Fiona Apple

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

— Fiona Apple

Home is where my habits have a habitat

— Fiona Apple

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.

— Fiona Apple

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.

— Fiona Apple

I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

— Fiona Apple

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 against I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.

— Fiona Apple

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

— Fiona Apple

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.

— Fiona Apple