Fiona Apple Writing Quotations

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

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

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

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

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

I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?