Alanis Morissette Quotes, Eye Quotes, Creative Quotes

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

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We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

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I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

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

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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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Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

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

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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

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I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

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My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

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

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No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

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I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

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

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I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

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I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

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