Love Quote by Fiona Apple

There is something disarming about a musician as famously exacting and allergic to bullshit as Fiona Apple admitting she wants to go back to school. Not “I should,” not “I need structure,” but “I would love it now” - the kind of line that lands like a quiet plot twist. It reframes education not as a chore or a credential, but as a pleasure she couldn’t access when she was younger, or couldn’t recognize as pleasure.

The subtext is aging without flattening. Apple became a public figure as a teenager, praised for adult-level intensity before she’d even gotten the private space to be unfinished. School, in that light, isn’t just classes; it’s a protected enclosure for being wrong in public, for trying ideas on without turning them into a brand. When you’ve spent years turning your interior life into art - and having strangers grade it - the fantasy of homework can read as a kind of radical rest.

“I would love it now” is also a sly rebuke to the myth that creative people are powered purely by instinct. Apple’s work has always sounded like someone who studies: language, rhythm, her own worst impulses. Wanting school suggests a hunger for tools, not just feelings - and a desire to be a student again, not a prodigy. In a culture that sells success as escape from institutions, she’s pointing to the intimacy of learning: the chance to be held accountable by something other than audience noise.