Top 200 Alanis Morissette Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When I’m really, really angry, if I’m privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I’ll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

153. “I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.”

— Alanis Morissette

154. “As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.”

— Alanis Morissette

155. “America’s a very traumatized society.”

— Alanis Morissette

156. “I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.”

— Alanis Morissette

157. “I didn’t want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they’ve missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.”

— Alanis Morissette

158. “The whole celebrity thing is not something I’m overly interested in. I don’t pop up at parties. It’s just not my thing.”

— Alanis Morissette

159. “I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.”

— Alanis Morissette

160. “I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.”

— Alanis Morissette

161. “My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.”

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162. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

163. “My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.”

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164. “The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.”

— Alanis Morissette

165. “At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.”

— Alanis Morissette

166. “They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.”

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167. “Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.”

— Alanis Morissette

168. “To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.”

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169. “In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.”

— Alanis Morissette

170. “There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we’re able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.”

— Alanis Morissette

171. “My message to anyone who’s afraid that they can’t write music when they’re happy is ‘Just trust the passion.’ The passion can write a lot of things.”

— Alanis Morissette

172. “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

173. “And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

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175. “I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

177. “I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.”

— Alanis Morissette

178. “I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that’s exactly what happened.”

— Alanis Morissette

179. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

180. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

181. “The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.”

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182. “I started making music because I could.”

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183. “I love songs that are very autobiographical.”

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184. “The more I know the less tortured I am.”

— Alanis Morissette

185. “At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.”

— Alanis Morissette

186. “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

187. “I’m a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I’ve collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I’m kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.”

— Alanis Morissette

188. “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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189. “I’ll write records until I’m dead. And then maybe even after that!”

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190. “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.”

— Alanis Morissette

191. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

192. “I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it’s doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I’m in, I’m at choice in the matter.”

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193. “What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.”

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194. “I’m saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.”

— Alanis Morissette

195. “I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I’ve come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.”

— Alanis Morissette

196. “We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.”

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

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198. “I find as an artist if I’m not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.”

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199. “Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn’t overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.”

— Alanis Morissette

200. “If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.”

— Alanis Morissette