Alanis Morissette

What’s that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

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

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

Truth over Harmony.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.