Alanis Morissette
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?Collection: Art
All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.Collection: Promise
First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.Collection: Spiritual
I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.Collection: Philosophy
I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.Collection: Doors
To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.Collection: Philosophy
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?Collection: Memories
Your choice of armor was your intellect.Collection: Education
We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.Collection: Hands
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your faceCollection: Life
When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.Collection: Mean
In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.Collection: Art
I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.Collection: Hate
I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.Collection: Girlfriend
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.Collection: Past
It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.Collection: Fighting
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.Collection: Giving
I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.Collection: Spiritual
When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.Collection: Hurt
The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.Collection: Moving
It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.Collection: Hate
I'm sad, but I'm laughing.Collection: Sadness
So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.Collection: Forgive Me
I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Song
So many boys, so little time.Collection: Boys
...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.Collection: Havens
Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?Collection: Theatre
When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.Collection: Buckets
I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.Collection: Oil
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.Collection: Writing
I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.Collection: People
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.Collection: Art
In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.Collection: Judging
I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.Collection: Thinking
I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.Collection: Believe
I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.Collection: Judging
If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.Collection: Motivation
The more I know the less tortured I am.Collection: Knowledge
I started making music because I could.Collection: Music
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.Collection: Music
Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.Collection: Fear
I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.Collection: Differences
When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.Collection: Thinking
Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.Collection: Spiritual
No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.Collection: Sex