Alanis Morissette

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

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.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

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.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it. Blues was started by the slaves and I think everybody thinks that it all should be sad… even some of the slaves had fun with it.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Musicians need to continue higher learning try to expand the pallet.

In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound.

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage.

I want to create music that’s therapeutic.

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I’m crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

I’m not like a legend that – so I’m sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I’m creating music, and I’m not saying there isn’t an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

I am a writer – that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

If you want to play somebody’s music, you’d better go into his house.

If a Jazz musician plays someone else’s song, he has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

I saw a vibraphone for the first time and knew immediately I had found my means of expression.