Alanis Morissette famous quotes

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Running #Emotional #Marathon

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Music #Helping

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there
-- Alanis Morissette

#Peace #Healing #Feelings

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

#Anger #Inspiration #Sadness

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

#Caring #Feminist #Empowering

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that
-- Alanis Morissette

#Journey #Knowing #Who We Are

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Empowering #Truthful #Vulnerable

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Positive #Song #Pain

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Grief #Brave #Resistance

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Athlete #Thinking #Views

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Live Life #Writing #Songwriting

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

#Thinking #Gone #Way

The ego is a fascinating monster.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Ego #Monsters

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

#Moving On #Break Up #Breakup

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Relationship #Believe #Two

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Love #Funny #Sarcastic

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Expression #Knives #Needs

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Sex #Men #Years

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

#Kids #Wells #Understood

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
-- Alanis Morissette

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Love You

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Song #Confused #Opposites

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Love #Spiritual #Peace

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Broken #Infidelity

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Spiritual #Song #Way

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...
-- Alanis Morissette

#Fear #Thinking #Long

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Who I Am #Self Awareness

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Thinking #Creating #Integration

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Feelings #Pieces

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn
-- Alanis Morissette

#Break Up #Ex Boyfriend #Love You

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Way #Faces

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Who I Am #People #Purpose

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Sick #Share

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Inspiring #Fun #Offering

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Fashion #Wall #Design

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Song #Anger #Writing

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Love #Peace #Thinking

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Spiritual #Husband #Silence

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Music #I Am What I Am

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Eye #Creative #Way

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Watches #Stories

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Children #Eye #Thinking

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred
-- Alanis Morissette

#Travel #Home #Sacred

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Expression #Piano

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Teenager #Taken #Eye

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Hate #Mind #Trying

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Art #Honesty #Believe

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Low Self Esteem #Bed #Jokes

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Apology #Low Self Esteem #Firsts

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Love #Love Is

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Art #Media #Weight

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Father #Thinking #Rejection

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

#Revenge #Nails #Scratches

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Philosophy #Hopeful #Lost

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Philosophy #Forgiving #Speak

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Philosophy #Lying

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
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#Long #Unanswered Questions #Dignity

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Memories #Unanswered Questions #Forget

Your choice of armor was your intellect.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Education #Choices #Armor

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Hands #Obesity

How about not equating death with stopping?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Stopping

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Getting Older #Tendencies

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Spiritual #Views #Political

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Sorry #Low Self Esteem

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Congratulations #Low Self Esteem #Approval

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Pain #Sadness #Hell

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Girl #Confused #Inspiration

America's a very traumatized society.
-- Alanis Morissette

#America

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Regret #Who I Am #Never Regret

I breastfeed and I’ll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,
-- Alanis Morissette

#Son #Breastfeeding #My Son

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Spiritual #Journey #Spiritual Journey

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour
-- Alanis Morissette

#Israel #Sacred #Sacred Places

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Friendship #Illusion #Invisible

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Friendship #Brother #Weather

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Sadness #Chill #Solitary

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Sadness #Laughing

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Theatre #Quality

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Inspirational #Ocean #Boat

I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Inspirational #Perseverance #Faces

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Peace #Grease #Tea

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Low Self Esteem #Sabotage

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Doors #Nudists #Bathroom

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Brother #Men #Guy

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Challenges #Different #Phases

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Littles #Blame

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Way #Default

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.
-- Alanis Morissette

#School #Winning #Way

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Cutting #Hair #Years

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Agendas #Records

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

#Making Changes

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Thinking #Order #People

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Thinking #Nuts #People

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Dream #Opportunity #Hot

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

#Morning #Would Be #Able

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.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Long #Trying #Needs

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

#Long #Way #Angry

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

#Artist #Consistently

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Records #Way #My Favorite

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

#Children #Opportunity #Years

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing