Fiona Apple Quotes

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn't know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.

Breaking up a hotel room doesn't change anything.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

Only in 2016 can a brother and sister have problems over the same man.