You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long. Fiona Apple More Quotes by Fiona Apple More Quotes From Fiona Apple I might sound crazy about this but, years ago, my mom told me: "We almost died when you were born. Both of us." I was a Caesarean baby, and the doctor who delivered me later told me, "I opened your mother up, and you were right there. It freaked me out because everything was broken and out-there." I've thought about it a lot - could this have something to do with the fact that I'm only happy when I'm at home and alone? Maybe I was just freaking out for two weeks before I was born, feeling really insecure. Fiona Apple mom mother baby I stand by everything I've Fiona Apple apology said And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me. Fiona Apple ex-boyfriend mean thinking Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included. Fiona Apple apology done said I'd say that I've been reclusive the last 34 years. That was my big thing as a kid, staying home from school. I've trained myself to be psychosomatically sick a lot. Anytime I go out, it is just something to deal with, even walking to the grocery store. If I'm supposed to go from one place to another place that isn't that comfortable, I usually don't go. Fiona Apple home kids school Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie. Fiona Apple adages lying promise You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. Fiona Apple comedy would-be funny I keep living this day like the next will never come. Fiona Apple this-day next philosophy I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to. Fiona Apple my-brother neighborhood brother I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow. Fiona Apple good-parent parent sometimes My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened. Fiona Apple feeling-sad who-i-am feelings I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you. Fiona Apple struggle lying thinking Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected. Fiona Apple humiliation hurt feels I still don't know what Episcopalian means. Fiona Apple stills knows mean Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply. Fiona Apple very-deep happens feels But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. Fiona Apple dad criticism giving I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back. Fiona Apple yelling ems glasses I want to move back to the East Coast. I like Venice, but L.A. is ugly. I would kill myself if I had to look out the window and see some places in L.A. every day. Fiona Apple ugly window moving If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing. Fiona Apple idlers gears would-be I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over. Fiona Apple lazy careers people
