Alanis Morissette

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

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.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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

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.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

The less you know, the more you believe.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.