Alanis Morissette Quotes

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

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

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.

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

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

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

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

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

I want to walk through life.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

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

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

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

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

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.

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.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

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

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

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

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

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

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

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

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

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

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

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

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

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

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

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

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.

As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.