Alanis Morissette

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

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

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

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

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

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.