Fiona Apple Quotes

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

You change the world by being yourself.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I've become more comfortable with the idea that I'm not really throwing anything away by being a bit more open about my books and life.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

I'm very interested in how people change.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and to pull out these things.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.