Alanis Morissette

I’ll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

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

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

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

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

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.