Quote: What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: When I'm supposed to switch something, my gut will tell me to do something that stretches or scares myself, and then I will. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: 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. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: Well, I didn't smile for a long time. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I remember when I was 10-years old I was at that proverbial fork in the road and I was acting as much as I was singing and writing songs just seemed to be so much more self-reliant and self-originating. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I love songs that are very autobiographical. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: 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. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. [Alanis Morissette]
Quote: I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything. [Alanis Morissette]