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Alanis Morissette Quotes


I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

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.

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

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

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

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

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

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

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

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.