Alanis Morissette Quotes

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

America's a very traumatized society.

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.

So many boys, so little time.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.

I want to walk through life.

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

How about not equating death with stopping?

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.