Alanis Morissette Quotes, Home Quotes, Writing Quotes

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.

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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. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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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.

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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

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When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

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With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

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

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I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

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I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

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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.

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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

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In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

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

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

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I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

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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.

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It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

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