Quotes from Alanis Morissette

Oh, hello, Mr. Man You didn't think I'd come back You didn't think I'd show up with my army And this ammunition on my back...I see right through you

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

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.

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

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

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.

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.

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

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

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your 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.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

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

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I started making music because I could.

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

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

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.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

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

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.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.