Top 200 Alanis Morissette Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

153. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

155. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

162. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

164. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

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

— Alanis Morissette

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

181. “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

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

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

— Alanis Morissette

184. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

186. “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

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

— Alanis Morissette

188. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

189. “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

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

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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. “In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren’t deities.”

— Alanis Morissette

193. “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

194. “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.”

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Alanis Morissette

196. “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

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. “Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”

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

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200. “There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.”

— Alanis Morissette