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

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
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.
Alanis Morissette

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Alanis Morissette

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
Alanis Morissette

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
Alanis Morissette

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Alanis Morissette

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
Alanis Morissette

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
Alanis Morissette

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
Alanis Morissette

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
Alanis Morissette

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Alanis Morissette

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.
Alanis Morissette