Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

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.

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

Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

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

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on Planet Earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

You gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

I love being sexy; I’m never gonna stop being an exhibitionist

For a while I was like, “Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever”, but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.

I’m not a musician, I’m an entertainer.

On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I’ve always wanted to do.

I really wasn’t heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.