23 Quotes & Sayings By Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended the Buckley School, then Hollywood High School. Apple spent seven years as a backing vocalist and guitarist for other artists and bands before releasing her first solo album, "Tidal", in 1996. The album was critically acclaimed and reached #8 on the Billboard 200 chart, #1 on the UK Albums Chart and #2 on the Australian Albums Chart.

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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. Fiona Apple
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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. Fiona Apple
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You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun Fiona Apple
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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
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When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing. Fiona Apple
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Home is where my habits have a habitat Fiona Apple
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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
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When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right . Fiona Apple
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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
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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 againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back. Fiona Apple
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The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor. Fiona Apple
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Cause I don't appreciate People who Don't appreciate Fiona Apple
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No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot. Fiona Apple
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. Fiona Apple
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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
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What's really good is African drum music. Fiona Apple
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. Fiona Apple
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Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way. Fiona Apple
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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
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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. Fiona Apple
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry? Fiona Apple
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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