Alanis Morissette Quotes

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.
Alanis Morissette

Sad, Happiness, Fear

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette

Funny, Love, Perfect

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Alanis Morissette

Courage, Trying, Whether

The ego is a fascinating monster.
Alanis Morissette

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette

Work, Good, Truth

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Diet, Wine

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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Happen, Whatever, Song

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

Spiritual, Angry, Point

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
Alanis Morissette

Peace, Time, Mind

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette

Job, Person, Why

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Bad

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Ego, Thinking

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
Alanis Morissette

Down, Emotions, Deal

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

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.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Men, Anger

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.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Infidelity, Broken

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis Morissette

Family, Different, Through

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.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Keep, Playing

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

Person, Meet, Gonna

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
Alanis Morissette

Parents, Idea, Possible

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

Art, Person, Try

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.
Alanis Morissette

Music, Home, Live

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Through, Walk

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
Alanis Morissette

Dreams, Marriage, Family

I love songs that are very autobiographical.
Alanis Morissette

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Nationality: Canadian

Born: June 1, 1974

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