Top 200 Alanis Morissette Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.”

— Alanis Morissette

102. “When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it’s triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about – which I see as a positive thing.”

— Alanis Morissette

103. “Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “I would never judge someone’s intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.”

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106. “How long before my dignity is reclaimed?”

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107. “I can’t not write, if I don’t then I get really depressed.”

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108. “I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.”

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109. “We eat when we’re full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we’re the best.”

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110. “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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111. “Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!”

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112. “I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I’m here to support the human evolution.”

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113. “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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114. “Love is thick and it swallows me whole.”

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115. “I’m excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the ’90s there was a lot of hate – the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It’s not so patriarchal these days – there’s more love and a lot less hate!”

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116. “It’s exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write – whether it be by loving or hating it.”

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117. “My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he’s 33 and being a professional while I’m playing soccer with my friends. Ha!”

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118. “I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one’s body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.”

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119. “But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “Anytime there’s separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.”

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122. “I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”

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123. “I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.”

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124. “I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn’t verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.”

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

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126. “Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.”

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127. “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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128. “Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.”

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129. “Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there’s this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I’m in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.”

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130. “I firmly believe that the only reason why I’m on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it’s my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.”

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131. “I’ll keep evolving and put that into my songs.”

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132. “Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.”

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133. “All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.”

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134. “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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135. “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.”

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136. “Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.”

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137. “It’s not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.”

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138. “All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.”

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139. “I don’t believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there’s also something we call bad.”

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.”

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143. “It’s when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn’t work for me.”

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144. “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.”

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145. “When I pray, I’m just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that’s where I go.”

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146. “I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.”

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147. “And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.”

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148. “I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.”

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149. “I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.”

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150. “If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it’s been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people’s that I’ve worked with. But it’s okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.”

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