Alanis Morissette Quotes

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.

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

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.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

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

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

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

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

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.

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

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

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 am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

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

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

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

I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

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

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

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

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

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

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.

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

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

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 hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

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

No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

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

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

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.

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

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.

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!