Fiona Apple Quotes

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I am a really sensitive person.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I want people to find their inner depth.

I am a very sensitive person.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.