Alanis Morissette Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

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I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

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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.

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I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

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

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We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

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I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

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

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What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

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When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

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At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

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Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

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

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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

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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.

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As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.

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