Alanis Morissette Quotes - Page 9

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

So many boys, so little time.

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.