Quotes from Alanis Morissette

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

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

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

The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

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.

America's a very traumatized society.

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

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

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

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

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.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

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.

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