Alanis Morissette Quotes

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

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And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

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How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

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I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

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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'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

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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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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.

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

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

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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 am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

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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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I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

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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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I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

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I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

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I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

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