Quotes from Alanis Morissette

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

So many boys, so little time.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

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.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

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

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

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.

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

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

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

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

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

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

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.

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.

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

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.