Alanis Morissette Quotes, Moving Quotes, Two Quotes

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Moving Quotes , Two Quotes

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Fear Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , People Quotes , Faces Quotes

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Home Quotes , Writing Quotes

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Children Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Mean Quotes , Feelings Quotes

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Littles Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Firsts Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Theatre Quotes , Quality Quotes

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Heart Quotes , Self Quotes

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Who I Am Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Nuts Quotes

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Persons Quotes

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Self Quotes , Mind Quotes

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Self Esteem Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Goal Quotes , Different Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Order Quotes , Trying Quotes

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Moving Quotes , Warrior Quotes