Fiona Apple Quotes

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

It's kind of an embarrassing story - that's why it's called 'The Idiot.' But looking back at your past self, you see that this person had reasons for everything she did. There's a whole lot of awkwardness, but really, what should one be embarrassed about?

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I learned from my past.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I wish I knew what I know now before.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.