Alanis Morissette Quotes - Page 8

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

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

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.

America's a very traumatized society.

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.

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.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

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.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

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.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.