Alanis Morissette

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

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

I’ll be writing songs till I die. There’s just no question.

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

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I am looking for a man I couldn’t beat in a cage fight.

There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, ‘Well, they get pie. It’s not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.’ I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

I think social media has given everyone a voice. Social media makes everyone a celebrity on some level. I think that diminishes the power of an artist who bases their trade on their talent, that’s one of the downfalls. But the good thing is that you can connect with your fans all the time.

[on dual careers and marriage] Marriage and family come before everything. You don’t want to make a movie at the cost of your relationship.

[On his belief in soul mates] I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you’re young because you’re probably going to mess it up.

I’m a chocolate addict!

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Before you talk to people in music or entertainment or video games, or even gun control, you need to talk to psychiatrists.

And I’m looking at him like, ‘Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson’. I fainted, blacked out – like seriously blacked out.

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

I love hearing educated people talk and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.