Alanis Morissette quotes - page 2

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 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.
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I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
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It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
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And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
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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.
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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.
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I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.
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I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. (Alanis Morissette)
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.
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Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
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I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
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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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I love songs that are very autobiographical.
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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.
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Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
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I started making music because I could.
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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.
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I am what I am Are you what you are or What? (Alanis Morissette)
Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything.
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There's a lyric in the middle of the song that says, "I want to decide between survival and bliss." Basically I'm talking about the difference between really being alive and really embracing the reason why I'm here on this earth versus my just being asleep and sleep walking and accepting the status quo and accepting somewhat of a suffering mentality to being here. It really is my responsibility to distinguish the difference between the two and choose which one I want. It's so easy for me to want to not take responsibility for my life and relinquish it and look outside of myself for the answers that I know very well are within me. It's so scary to be silent and it's so scary to go within, until I do it. And once I'm doing it, I just wonder why I wasn't doing this all the time. So that decision to be fully alive is one that is preceded by some pretty intense decisions and some choices and responsibility-taking that at times can be very intimidating, again, before I do it.
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It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
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Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.
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