Fiona Apple Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

I'm very much of an individual myself, and I do things sometimes that the next person probably won't, or wouldn't, do because they're not me.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.