Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

"I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children."
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"I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee."
Alanis Morissette
"I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life."
Alanis Morissette
"The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not."
Alanis Morissette
"I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true."
Alanis Morissette
"Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!"
Alanis Morissette
"And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."
Alanis Morissette
"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"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."
Alanis Morissette
"Only traumatised people want to be famous."
Alanis Morissette
"There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space."
Alanis Morissette
"My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house."
Alanis Morissette
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