Famous Quotes

Quotes by Alanis Morissette

• I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
• I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
• I 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.
• I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
• I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
• 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.
• I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
• 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.
• 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.
• I 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.
• I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
• I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
• I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
• 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.
• I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
• I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
• I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
• I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
• I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!
• I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
• 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.
• 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.
• In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
• It'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.
• It'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.