I really don’t think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn’t learn from it.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, ‘I can’t be friends with you, you’re too intense, you’re too sad all the time.’ I really thought that when I made the first...

As a person who performs on stage, it’s good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it’s like you’re messing with an animal when it’s eating.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

Five years from now I’m probably going to look back on the things I’m doing and cringe.

He said ‘it’s all in your head’ and I said ‘so’s everything’but he didn’t get it.

There aren’t many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it’s cool if you’re the bad girl.

I feel like I’m 100 years old. I can’t tell you what I did today. I can’t tell you what I did for seven years. I can’t tell you. It happens so seamlessly – I’m...

I don’t have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I don’t want to give any 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.

In a sense it’s a lot crazier when you’re on the road and it’s a lot less stable, but it’s actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to...

If I have one success in my relationship history, it’s with the people who listen to my music. I think that they’ll be there with me forever, and I’ll be there with them forever. And...

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...