Fiona Apple

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 was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends. ”

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. ”

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? ”

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time. ”

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? ”

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. ”

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows. ”

I read on the Internet that I was dead. ”

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me. ”