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It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me. Alanis Morissette

Work Me Own Record Someone Agenda

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change. Alanis Morissette

Change Make Because Doing Working Choose

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

Music Related See Directly Point Anything Really

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic. Alanis Morissette

Teen Both Anorexic

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old. Alanis Morissette

Anger Women Old Sex Feeling Big Has-Been Weaker Physically Had Head Days Without Deal How Big Deal Been Off Get Burned Stake Really Chopped Express Her

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

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

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. Alanis Morissette

Write Songs Always Thing Default Here

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

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

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

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