Zitat des Tages von Fiona Apple:
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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.
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
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 into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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.
I'm not a control freak.
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
What's really good is African drum music.
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.
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
I don't want to give any 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 don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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?
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.