Fiona Apple Quotes

• You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun.

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  Tags in Music

• You think you’re looking at things all the time, but you’re not looking at things, you’re looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

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  Tags in Think, Things, Looking

• 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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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Everything, Thought, Romantic

• You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Brain, Crazy

• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan.

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  Tags in Reason, Really

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

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  Tags in Happen, Thought, Thing

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

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  Tags in Kids, Read

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

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  Tags in Men, Live, About

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

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  Tags in Comfortable, Strange

• In a sense it’s a lot crazier when you’re on the road and it’s a lot less stable, but it’s actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

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  Tags in Actually, Healthy, Keeps

• If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

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  Tags in Want, Cry

• I’m a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

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  Tags in Good, Myself, Learn

• I wasn’t very ambitious as a child. I’m still not.

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  Tags in Ambitious, Child

• I just tend to do things to myself that I don’t realize I’m doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can’t stop. And sometimes I’d play shows on the last run, I’d scratch my neck while I was singing, and I’d horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

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  Tags in Myself, Things, Realize, Sometimes

• 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.

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  Tags in Problems, Happy, Myself

• I feel like I’m 100 years old. I can’t tell you what I did today. I can’t tell you what I did for seven years. I can’t tell you. It happens so seamlessly – I’m just floating along and seven years go by.

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  Tags in Happens, Feel, Like

• I can’t remember writing any of the songs that I’ve written.

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  Tags in Remember, Writing

• I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

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  Tags in Myself, Nice

• I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

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  Tags in Accept, Might

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

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  Tags in Public, Playing, Music

Fiona Apple (66)

Birth:	13th September, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Fiona Apple was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and record producer. Her debut album, Tidal, written when Apple was seventeen, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Criminal". Other singles from Tidal included "Shadowboxer", "Sleep to Dream", and "Never Is a Promise". She accepted MTV Video Music Award for "Best New Artist" for her song Sleep to Dream in 1997. Her other albums list shown below: The Idler Wheel..., When the Pawn..., and Extraordinary Machine.

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