Alanis Morissette

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

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.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

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

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

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Everything we do needs to be exceptional – if it’s not exceptional we don’t put it out there, because the biggest high for us is when we read comments from our customers saying that they can’t live without them.

I don’t take gifts from perfect strangers-but then, nobody is perfect.

So I’m you, I’m us, it’s us. It went from Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye – just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, everything. The album is more of a reflection of who we are.

[On being told that he should be an agent with him having no acting ‘gifts’. And saying that you need to know absolutely nothing to be an agent.] I thought that’s the job for me.

It was fun to sing somebody else’s song.

I’ve been using the fan websites as I was acting it, because they know so much about the books, and it’s really helpful as a resource.

People say, Kanye he’s so crazy, he’s this, he’s that. People call you crazy so much you start to believe it yourself.

We’ll probably end up doing a terrible crossover, where the Matthew Perry character on the drama rapes my character on the comedy-and then the ‘Law & Order’ team solves the crime.

[on Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’] He’s a poet, and very deep and profound. He’s just extraordinarily troubled.

Fame for fame’s sake is a completely empty experience. Fame should be a by-product (and not necessarily a good one) of achieving something extraordinary.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I don’t have a recollection of mostly anybody I’ve hung out with.