Fiona Apple Quotes

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.