Alanis Morissette Quotes

Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
Born: Jun 1, 1974
About Life Me People Think Time
Related authors: Drake Joni Mitchell Justin Bieber Leonard Cohen Neil Young Shawn Mendes The Weeknd Tory Lanez
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. Alanis Morissette
Life Walk Through Instead Being Want Dragged
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
Alone Myself Entertainment Woman Own Nothing Else Entertainment Industry My Own Could Industry Prove Doing Very Trying Patriarchal Order Much Planet Producing
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
Morning Would Would-Be Able Had Studio Until Preference
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
Love Time Me People Purpose Records Know Period Am Ultimately Process Produce Who Forward Expressing Serve Here Pulling
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. Alanis Morissette
Life Me My Life Tool Once Purpose Inspiring Fame Offering Contributing Get Again Then Really Used Fun Serve Started
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
Long Whatever Say Melody Around Fit Trying Then Need
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. Alanis Morissette
Writing Out Throw Songs Overly Intellectual Just Process Turns Start
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
Work Best Book People Mind Own Down Other Back Would Some My Own Point Write Like Deadline Sort Breathing Fifty Million Things Million People Neck
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. Alanis Morissette
Write Songs Always Thing Default Here
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is. Alanis Morissette
Happiness People Achieve Wish Think Would Could Order Them Realize Really Bring
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. Alanis Morissette
Day Song Will Wind Whatever Lyrics Studio Come Contemplating Go Up Just Being Happen
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. Alanis Morissette
Life Time Drive Living Teeming Spend Write Studio Songwriting Lot Get Experiences Then Living Life By The Time
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
Me Creative Thrive Enjoy Living Ways Eye Someone Lifetime Irony Being Biggest Public Public Eye Who Creative Ways Actually
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. Alanis Morissette
Love Sick System Out Entertain About Vocation Write Share Get Experiences Them Then Publicly
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette
Women Beauty Live Defined Out About Perfectionism Perilous Sticking La Where Really Your Standard Now Bones
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. Alanis Morissette
Moving On God Time You Thank God First Older Able About More Write Know First Time Arrive Line Up Thank Same Where Different Place Informed Little Breakup Different Place Growing Growing Up Now Started
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
Song Confused Having More Written Feel Equal Vulnerable How Opposite Effect After
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
Life Music Time Family My Life Down Everything Way Bit Wayside Out About Having More Touring Toward Over Fell Couple Period Balancing Boyfriend Were Years Friends List Little Little Bit Worked Really Last
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one. Alanis Morissette
Song Unless Kind Would About New Felt Passionate New One Just Just Kind Loved Really Start
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
Men Brothers Guys Masculine Environment Around Lot Up Friends Very Just Grew
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question. Alanis Morissette
Writing No Question Songs Till Question Die Just
I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts. Alanis Morissette
People Some People Think Nuts Some Intense
America's a very traumatized society. Alanis Morissette
Society Very America Traumatized
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette
Women Beauty Defined Out Perilous Sticking Really Your Standard Now Bones
Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Alanis Morissette
Live Softer Harsh About Seems Perfectionism America Where Little Europe
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
Me Age Young Thinking Had Taught Young Age Turned Planet Serve Save
Load more quotes

No more Alanis Morissette quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Alanis Morissette.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025