Top 100 Alanis Morissette Quotes
#1. Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.
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#2. The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.
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#3. 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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#4. I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
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#5. 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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#6. I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.
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#7. They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
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#8. I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.
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#9. I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!
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#10. We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
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#14. There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.
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#15. At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
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#16. I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow,
these are really great appetizers. I haven't
even considered what I'm going to order
for the full entree meal yet.'
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#19. 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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#21. I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.
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#22. When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
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#23. 212. "And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper"~
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#26. I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.
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#27. Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.
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#28. I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.
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#29. I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
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#30. Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!
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#35. I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
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#36. I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.
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#37. When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.
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#38. Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.
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#39. 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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#41. First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.
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#42. I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
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#43. What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
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#46. Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.
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#47. With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
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#49. There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.
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#51. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
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#52. Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
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#53. I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.
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#55. My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred
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#56. I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
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#57. Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
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#59. I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
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#60. I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.
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#61. I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.
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#62. And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
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#63. 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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#64. Whether you're checked in or checked out, you're always on a spiritual journey.
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#65. 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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#66. I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.
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#67. Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated ... It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.
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#68. I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
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#69. Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
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#70. In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
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#72. Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
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#73. In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.
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#74. 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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#76. Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
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#77. Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.
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#78. In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.
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#79. Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
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#80. I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
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#81. I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
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#82. 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.'
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#83. 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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#85. Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything
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#86. Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.
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#87. 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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#88. I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
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#89. There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.
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#91. You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
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#93. I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.
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#94. My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!
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#95. My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!
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#96. If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.
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#97. 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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#98. I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.
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#99. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
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#100. My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
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