I don’t want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they’re your mistakes.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I’m anorexic. I’m so totally not.

For a while I was looking forward to having to get another job, … I had this fantasy about applying to this place in upstate New York, Green Chimneys. They do occupational therapy with kids,...

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people – I was never really made for this kind of...

You think you’re looking at things all the time, but you’re not looking at things, you’re looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

I don’t know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

When I was a kid–10, 11, 12, 13–the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to...

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn’t get it then. Nothing’s changed.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the...

I don’t think what I look like is relevant.

They basically wanted me to audition my songs,

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda...

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I let the beast in too soon I don’t know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it’s so sweet. You think you know how...

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn’t know how.

[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, …...

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o’clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel...

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

This a real but minor issue involving a vendor-quality problem in a small number of units,

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I just tend to do things to myself that I don’t realize I’m doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can’t stop. And sometimes I’d play shows...

I resent limitations. I’m going to be this way for a while.

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should’ve put ’em, should’ve put ’em on againso I could see...

Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they’re 21.

But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.

It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

I’m not a control freak.

I’m not the Queen. I’m not a huge superstar; I don’t get paparazzi around me.

[Elizondo] made these really simple tracks to start off, and I really got excited, … I knew all along that those two songs I kept exactly the same were perfect. ‘Parting Gift’ I wrote when...

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

I’ve gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won’t even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that’s the end of my day.

I still don’t know what Episcopalian means.

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night’s phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

What’s really good is African drum music.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

I say tell me the truth, but you don ‘«t dare. I tell you how I feel but you don ‘«t care. You say love is a hell you cannot bear. Well I say give...

I was so self-critical. I still am; but it’s not as bad anymore.

And if I’m being honest, I don’t think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

In a strange way, I’m way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

Look at what happens when people get up on podiums and talk about politics.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can’t live your life and not hurt people.