Alanis Morissette

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

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that’s going on.

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

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.

Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.

I want a kick to my band, but I don’t want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

If you take the time and your talent is real, it will last.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was 6 years old.

Just allow your feelings to go with the music and you’ll find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

Music’s a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.