17 Random Quotes By - Alanis Morissette

17 Random Quotes By - Alanis Morissettee

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.

— Alanis Morissette

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

— Alanis Morissette

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette

I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.

— Alanis Morissette

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

— Alanis Morissette

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

— Alanis Morissette

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

— Alanis Morissette

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.

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

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.

— Alanis Morissette

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

— Alanis Morissette

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

— Alanis Morissette

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

— Alanis Morissette

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