Alanis Morissette Quotes

America's a very traumatized society.

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It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

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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.

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I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

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Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

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

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I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

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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.

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I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

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

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Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

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

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I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

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And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

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Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

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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.

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Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

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What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

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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.

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When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

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