Quotes from Alanis Morissette

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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.

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.

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

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

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

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

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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.

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.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

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

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.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

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

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears.