R. W. Apple Quotes

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

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

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

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

I'm not a control freak.

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.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

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

I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

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

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.

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

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.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

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

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

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

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

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 awkward.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

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

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.