3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don’t care how many units I sell.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.’
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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!
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
