Alanis Morissette Quotes - Page 4

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 we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

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.

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

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.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

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

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

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

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.

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