Quotes By Alanis Morissette

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

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.

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.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

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

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.

America's a very traumatized society.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

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.

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.

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.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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

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

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

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

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

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.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

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.

There'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.

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

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.