Alanis Morissette

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

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended.

I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.

I pay all my own bills… I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Trump hasn’t said one crazy thing, he’s said thousands of crazy things, each of which blunts the effect of the others.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual with the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Well, my sort of stability as a character, it’s never been one of my strongest attributes. I’m a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out; people run away, pull their hair off, go off in different directions, nodding their heads, and going, “Oh, god”.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

The problem is, I don’t think I’ve got too much to offer at the minute. I’m busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it’s like, you’ve got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. ‘Blorft’ is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

I feel like true icons shift music, uplift music, switch music, have the balls to take a chance.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I’m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

I’m having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I’ll have a family, because I don’t want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it’s not defining who I am.