Fiona Apple

“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.”

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

“I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.”

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

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

“I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.”

“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.”

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

“I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.”

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

“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.”

“You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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