I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Fiona Apple Quotes

American - Musician Born: September 13, 1977

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away. Fiona Apple

Thought, Away, Balloons

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe. Fiona Apple

Doing, Going, Cringe

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me. Fiona Apple

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

Trust, Crowd, Surrounded

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

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now. Fiona Apple

Love, Would, Like

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

Love, Doing, Telling

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me. Fiona Apple

Myself, Me, Doing

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows. Fiona Apple

Best, Always, Going

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

Reason, Years, Seven

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

Happy, Got, Just Kind

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

Mirror, Through, Pass

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. Fiona Apple

Music, Only, About

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not. Fiona Apple

Me, Anybody, Anorexic

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

Graduation, Got, Just Kind

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. Fiona Apple

Think, Goal, I Think

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

Salad, Some, Otherwise

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

Thought, Kid, Times

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

Think, Satisfied, I Think

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

Like, Performs, Messing

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me. Fiona Apple

Lunch, Behind, Had

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage. Fiona Apple

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. Fiona Apple

Done, Realized, Became

The worst pain in the world is shame. 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

Pain, Bad, Shame

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them. Fiona Apple

Feel, Everybody, Show

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

Thought, Going, Wanted

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