Fiona Apple Quotes

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.

If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I'd rather be happy than right.

I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.