Alanis Morissette Quotes

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!