110+ Alanis Morissette Quotes (Powerful, Emotive And Iconic)

Alanis Morissette is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known for her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which spawned the hit singles "You Oughta Know" and "Ironic". She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards and has sold over 75 million records worldwide.

Top 10 Alanis Morissette Quotes

1. I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
2. I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
3. Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.
4. I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
5. I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.
6. When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
7. the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that
8. I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
9. I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
10. Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Alanis Morissette Short Quotes

• Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.
• Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
• We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
• Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.
• I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
• And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
• I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.
• In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.
• The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
• I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

Alanis Morissette Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever. — Alanis Morissette

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. — Alanis Morissette

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

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

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain. — Alanis Morissette

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. — Alanis Morissette

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means. — Alanis Morissette

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

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. — Alanis Morissette

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

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

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee. — Alanis Morissette

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. — Alanis Morissette

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. 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

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

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn — Alanis Morissette

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. — Alanis Morissette

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face — Alanis Morissette

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

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

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. — Alanis Morissette

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete — Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction. — Alanis Morissette

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference. — Alanis Morissette

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful. — Alanis Morissette

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot. — Alanis Morissette

Your political views really denote your spiritual views. — Alanis Morissette

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. — Alanis Morissette

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. — Alanis Morissette

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations. — Alanis Morissette

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in. — Alanis Morissette

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same. — Alanis Morissette

An old man turned ninety-eightHe won the lottery and died the next dayIt's a black fly in your ChardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too lateIt's a traffic jam when you're already lateIt's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife. — Alanis Morissette

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1. — Alanis Morissette

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

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

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules. — Alanis Morissette

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.' — Alanis Morissette

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything. — Alanis Morissette

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey. — Alanis Morissette

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual. — Alanis Morissette

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. — Alanis Morissette

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. — Alanis Morissette

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. — Alanis Morissette

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs. — Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette

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

I am what I am Are you what you are or What? — Alanis Morissette

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. — Alanis Morissette

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing. — Alanis Morissette

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now. — Alanis Morissette

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. — Alanis Morissette

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

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on. — Alanis Morissette

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

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

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

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

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. — Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't. — Alanis Morissette

I love songs that are very autobiographical. — Alanis Morissette

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

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette

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

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends. — Alanis Morissette

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question. — Alanis Morissette

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. — Alanis Morissette

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

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

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be. — Alanis Morissette

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else. — Alanis Morissette

First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am. — Alanis Morissette

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay. — Alanis Morissette

I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way. — Alanis Morissette

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished. — Alanis Morissette

The more I know the less tortured I am. — Alanis Morissette

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful. — Alanis Morissette

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? — Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could. — Alanis Morissette

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best. — Alanis Morissette

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do. — Alanis Morissette

In the past, I had workaholic issues. — Alanis Morissette

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions — Alanis Morissette

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

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate. — Alanis Morissette

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage. — Alanis Morissette

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything — Alanis Morissette

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems. — Alanis Morissette

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

Life Lessons by Alanis Morissette

1. Alanis Morissette teaches us to be true to ourselves and to never compromise our values. She encourages us to be brave and to speak our truth, even if it means going against the grain.
2. She reminds us to be open to change and to embrace our vulnerabilities, as this is the only way to grow and to reach our full potential.
3. Lastly, Alanis Morissette encourages us to stay connected to our emotions and to use them as a source of strength and inspiration.