Alanis Morissette Quotes - Page 2

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

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

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.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

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.

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 think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

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

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

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

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

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

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.

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.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.