Alanis Morissette

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

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.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

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

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Listening is more important than anything because that’s what music is. Somebody is playing something and you’re receiving it.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

All of the technique doesn’t matter… only if the feeling is right.

There are no natural barriers. It’s all music.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn’t I couldn’t do my best.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Music should never be harmless.

Music must be an innovation.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

You don’t rehearse Jazz to death to get the camera angles.