Top 100 Fiona Apple Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Never is a promise, and you can’t afford to lie.”

— Fiona Apple

53. “I don’t mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I’ve always thought that it’s interesting to watch people work things out on stage.”

— Fiona Apple

54. “I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.”

— Fiona Apple

55. “Five years from now I’m probably going to look back on the things I’m doing and cringe.”

— Fiona Apple

56. “I dare anybody to look at me and say I’m anorexic. I’m so totally not.”

— Fiona Apple

57. “My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?”

— Fiona Apple

58. “Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”

— Fiona Apple

59. “If I have one success in my relationship history, it’s with the people who listen to my music. I think that they’ll be there with me forever, and I’ll be there with them forever. And I’m totally satisfied with that.”

— Fiona Apple

60. “Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest.”

— Fiona Apple

61. “Love is a hell you cannot bear.”

— Fiona Apple

62. “If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.”

— Fiona Apple

63. “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

64. “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

65. “I really don’t think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn’t learn from it.”

— Fiona Apple

66. “How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.”

— Fiona Apple

67. “My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there’s the sophomore record, then there’s this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.”

— Fiona Apple

68. “Let me know the way, before there’s hell to pay.”

— Fiona Apple

69. “I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.”

— Fiona Apple

70. “No matter how well prepared you are in life, you’re gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you’re better off.”

— Fiona Apple

71. “I’m not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.”

— Fiona Apple

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

— Fiona Apple

73. “I want to be like the patron saint of reality.”

— Fiona Apple

74. “Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.”

— Fiona Apple

75. “My mind goes to tragedy first.”

— Fiona Apple

76. “I’m not a functional person because I don’t go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I’m not really human.”

— Fiona Apple

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

— Fiona Apple

78. “Categories are gibberish to me. I understand – it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can’t go too far with it.”

— Fiona Apple

79. “I didn’t want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.”

— Fiona Apple

80. “As a person who performs on stage, it’s good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it’s like you’re messing with an animal when it’s eating.”

— Fiona Apple

81. “I’m here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.”

— Fiona Apple

82. “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.”

— Fiona Apple

83. “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

84. “If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It’s not like there’s just me and then nothing.”

— Fiona Apple

85. “You’re all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.”

— Fiona Apple

86. “Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.”

— Fiona Apple

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

— Fiona Apple

88. “I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.”

— Fiona Apple

89. “There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.”

— Fiona Apple

90. “The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?”

— Fiona Apple

91. “Put a little love here in my void.”

— Fiona Apple

92. “Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.”

— Fiona Apple

93. “I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.”

— Fiona Apple

94. “I used to love to make things – you couldn’t drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.”

— Fiona Apple

95. “I still don’t know what Episcopalian means.”

— Fiona Apple

96. “I was never somebody who grew up going, ‘I really want to be a singer in a band,’ and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.”

— Fiona Apple

97. “I think that, y’know, they seem to really love music, which means they’ll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!”

— Fiona Apple

98. “I don’t know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.”

— Fiona Apple

99. “Do they think I’m on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I’m anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn’t get easier to hear those criticisms – but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.”

— Fiona Apple

100. “In a strange way, I’m way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.”

— Fiona Apple