Top 100 Fiona Apple Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.”

— Fiona Apple

2. “I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can’t live your life and not hurt people.”

— Fiona Apple

3. “Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.”

— Fiona Apple

4. “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

5. “Home is where my habits have a habitat.”

— Fiona Apple

6. “How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?”

— Fiona Apple

7. “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.”

— Fiona Apple

8. “When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.”

— Fiona Apple

9. “Don’t waste your crazy!”

— Fiona Apple

10. “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 again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.”

— Fiona Apple

11. “You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun.”

— Fiona Apple

12. “I’m not turned on, so put away that meat you’re selling.”

— Fiona Apple

13. “If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.”

— Fiona Apple

14. “I’m so tired of trying to say things to people and having them not listen. That’s probably the reason why a lot of people think that I’m either depressed or sullen or shy because I just simply will not talk to you unless that I think that you’re listening to me. I just simply won’t. I can’t.”

— Fiona Apple

15. “I’ve been a bad, bad girl – I’ve been careless with a delicate man.”

— Fiona Apple

16. “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

17. “I wouldn’t know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.”

— Fiona Apple

18. “Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.”

— Fiona Apple

19. “I just want to feel everything.”

— Fiona Apple

20. “Divas are not made, they are born.”

— Fiona Apple

21. “Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.”

— Fiona Apple

22. “You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way. That’s why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.”

— Fiona Apple

23. “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

24. “I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren’t going to like me if I didn’t.”

— Fiona Apple

25. “Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.”

— Fiona Apple

26. “I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.”

— Fiona Apple

27. “I like the idea of the idler wheel – it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn’t really know why.”

— Fiona Apple

28. “I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.”

— Fiona Apple

29. “The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.”

— Fiona Apple

30. “What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?”

— Fiona Apple

31. “Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.”

— Fiona Apple

32. “My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.”

— Fiona Apple

33. “Be kind to me, or treat me mean I’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine.”

— Fiona Apple

34. “How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.”

— Fiona Apple

35. “It’s a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.”

— Fiona Apple

36. “Everybody acts like I’m nuts. I’m not nuts I just want to feel it all.”

— Fiona Apple

37. “Love is love, and there will never be too much.”

— Fiona Apple

38. “I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I’m finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.”

— Fiona Apple

39. “My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I’m close to you I lose my desideratum.”

— Fiona Apple

40. “I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.”

— Fiona Apple

41. “I’ve gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won’t even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that’s the end of my day.”

— Fiona Apple

42. “It pisses me off to think we’re conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that’s uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it’s me filling my quota- it’s going to make my joy more intense later.”

— Fiona Apple

43. “I keep living this day like the next will never come.”

— Fiona Apple

44. “We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity.”

— Fiona Apple

45. “I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn’t get along with. I’m really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I’ve ever had a relationship with.”

— Fiona Apple

46. “I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.”

— Fiona Apple

47. “The worst pain in the world is shame.”

— Fiona Apple

48. “I’m not lazy, but I don’t have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, “Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!” I don’t really care if my career is over.”

— Fiona Apple

49. “I’m a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up.”

— Fiona Apple

50. “My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes.”

— Fiona Apple