I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow. Fiona Apple More Quotes by Fiona Apple More Quotes From Fiona Apple These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me. Fiona Apple assuming people Love is love, and there will never be too much. Fiona Apple too-much love-is How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone? Fiona Apple left-alone left asks Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love. Fiona Apple cost too-much hurt When you're famous weird things will happen that end up hurting your feelings. I'll get a letter from somebody I knew a while ago and I'll be really touched. Then I'll turn over the envelope and their business card falls out. Fiona Apple hurt feelings fall There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. Fiona Apple girl children thinking I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest." Fiona Apple autism emotional kids I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano? Fiona Apple piano want writing I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up Fiona Apple cups growing growing-up I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right. Fiona Apple concerts kids children I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a role model, then I'd rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I'm a product of role models that didn't make me feel like I was as good as them. Fiona Apple role-models perfect fun He goes along just as a water lily Fiona Apple passion home song It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. Fiona Apple oblivion calm blue If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it. Fiona Apple choices teaching kids 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-you eating animal What will an angel say that the devil wants to know? Fiona Apple devil angel want I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. Fiona Apple misogyny girl men I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself. Fiona Apple kids My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet. Fiona Apple moon heart fall I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed. Fiona Apple fifth-grade sarcastic way
