Fiona Apple Quotes

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Introspection! I hate it!

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

It's really hard to watch yourself.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

It's very difficult for me to talk about myself, it's not something I enjoy.

People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.