Alanis Morissette

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

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

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

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

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

The most you get is what you ask for.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.