Quotes by Alanis Morissette

Well love you just the way you are if youre perfect.

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

Im quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. Its such an art, so delicate.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I cant.

Peace of mind for five minutes, thats what I crave.

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 theres been a liberating force thats come from it.

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

Its not just the Grammys that Ive 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.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

When someone says that Im angry its actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why Id write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Its a joke to think that anyone is one thing. Were all such complex creatures. But if Im going to be a poster child for anything, angers a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead OConnor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote Jagged Little Pill.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we wont get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

Theres a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. Theres such a continuity between everything that I dont really care what form it shows up in.

I think its 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, its at the cost of someones natural development. Its already hard enough to develop.