01c. 1991 ADFor 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1991 ADA 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1991 ADCourage 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.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
04c. 1991 ADI didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
05c. 1991 ADI was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
06c. 1991 ADMy message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
07c. 1991 ADDo I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
08c. 1991 ADBeauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
10c. 1991 ADI try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
11c. 1991 ADI'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
12c. 1991 ADI could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
14c. 1991 ADThen 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1991 ADMy greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
16c. 1991 ADIt's not just the 'Grammys' that I've 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.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
17c. 1991 ADWhen 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.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
18c. 1991 ADMy 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.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
19c. 1991 ADWhen someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
20c. 1991 ADIt's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
21c. 1991 ADWhat influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
22c. 1991 ADAnger 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1991 ADThere's 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. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
24c. 1991 ADI think it's 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, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.Alanis Morissette / quote ↗
