Alanis Morissette Quotes, Long Quotes, Trying Quotes

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

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I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

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When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

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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.

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It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

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

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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

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

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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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The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

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I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

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Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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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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I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete

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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

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Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

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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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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

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