Alanis Morissette

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’m a liability to them – I’m a woman, I’m empowered, I’m an artist. I’ve had executives who can’t come to my shows they’re so scared of me. I’ve been a thorn in many people’s sides just by existing.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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

It’s when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn’t work for me.

People will say, ‘Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they’re giving girls a negative message’-but we’re also the fattest country in the world, so it’s not like we’re all looking at fashion magazines and not eating.

I’m from the ghetto side of Sydney. We don’t really do drive-bys, we just do drive-thrus.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I’ve got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that’s it. It’s something I’ve got to sort out-I cut people off.

[On husband Ryan Phillippe] I don’t think I can imagine a better guy than the one I’ve ended up with.

Dammit, interviews are not what I do.

I don’t see what the point is in growing up.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

What cha saying boy, you think Im playing boy, watch ya mouth girl, its a mans world.

Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy…there wasn’t this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don’t want her to waste her time on all of that.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.

I was sleeping on a couch in my brothers apartment, and one day this guy walked over and said ‘How would you like to be in a movie?’ And I said ‘Yeah!’ I was an extra in ‘Explosive Generation’.

Choosing people to be on your ‘Sammy Hagar and Friends’ record, you’re going, ‘I’ve got so many friends.’ And so many friends have called me up and said, ‘Come on dude, why didn’t you ask me to be on the record?’ I’m going, ‘Damn, I forgot.’ I really did.

[On turning down the chance to appear in Ocean’s Twelve] Why say a couple of lines opposite Brad Pitt when I could be playing lead back home?

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

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion.