Alanis Morissette Quotes, Writing Quotes

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

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I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

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

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The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

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I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

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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.

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My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

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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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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.

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Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

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Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

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

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I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

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But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

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Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

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Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

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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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Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

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