3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette My message to anyone who’s afraid that they can’t write music when they’re happy is ‘Just trust the passion.’ The passion can write a lot of things.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can’t.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette When someone says that I’m angry it’s actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I’d write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I’m clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I’ll be writing books. I’m still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette In LA, where I live, it’s all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident – it doesn’t matter to me. I think there’s a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It’s my hippie way of life.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette It’s not just the ‘Grammys’ that I’ve pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
