Alanis Morissette

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

It’s when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn’t work for me.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

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

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All heiresses are beautiful.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.