Alanis Morissette Quotes, Soccer Quotes, Song Quotes

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

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I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

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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.

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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.

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

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When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

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

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As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

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When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

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I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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

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I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

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I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

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When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

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I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

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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.

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I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

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