Top 200 Alanis Morissette Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Every time I scratch my nails down someone else’s back, I hope you feel it.”

— Alanis Morissette

53. “To whom do I owe the first apology? No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me.”

— Alanis Morissette

54. “Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.”

— Alanis Morissette

55. “What I wouldn’t give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.”

— Alanis Morissette

56. “I don’t want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.”

— Alanis Morissette

57. “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

58. “Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything.”

— Alanis Morissette

59. “So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon...”

— Alanis Morissette

60. “I’m about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.”

— Alanis Morissette

61. “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

62. “I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

— Alanis Morissette

63. “The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.”

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64. “Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.”

— Alanis Morissette

65. “I hear you’re losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you’re losing it for?”

— Alanis Morissette

66. “I think it’s irresponsible when celebrities imply they’re doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He’s really full-on. I couldn’t do it any other way.”

— Alanis Morissette

67. “The ego is a fascinating monster.”

— Alanis Morissette

68. “I highly recommend getting older! There’s less tendency to people-please.”

— Alanis Morissette

69. “I’m a liability to them – I’m a woman, I’m empowered, I’m an artist. I’ve had executives who can’t come to my shows they’re so scared of me. I’ve been a thorn in many people’s sides just by existing.”

— Alanis Morissette

70. “I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It’s my hippie way of life.”

— Alanis Morissette

71. “I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance – and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything’s okay.”

— Alanis Morissette

72. “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

73. “When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.”

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74. “Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.”

— Alanis Morissette

75. “I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I’ve lived as much hell as you have, and I’ve kept mine bubbling under for you.”

— Alanis Morissette

76. “When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.”

— Alanis Morissette

77. “That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.”

— Alanis Morissette

78. “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

79. “I’m quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It’s such an art, so delicate.”

— Alanis Morissette

80. “I’m sad, but I’m laughing.”

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81. “I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.”

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82. “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

83. “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

84. “Let’s be outspoken, let’s be ridiculous, let’s solve the world’s problems.”

— Alanis Morissette

85. “When I’m in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.”

— Alanis Morissette

86. “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

87. “Profanity is merely an expression of one’s emotions.”

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88. “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.”

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89. “I never regret anything I do. It’s part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.”

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90. “I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident – it doesn’t matter to me. I think there’s a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.”

— Alanis Morissette

91. “What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O’Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote ‘Jagged Little Pill.’”

— Alanis Morissette

92. “When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.”

— Alanis Morissette

93. “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

94. “I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can’t.”

— Alanis Morissette

95. “Writing a song doesn’t heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it’s still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.”

— Alanis Morissette

96. “Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.”

— Alanis Morissette

97. “I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.”

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

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99. “As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.”

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100. “I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn’t say it with any conviction.”

— Alanis Morissette