Alanis Morissette

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

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

Matt Drudge is a great gentleman, who really – he’s got an ability to capture stories that people want to see

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

Fake news is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???

I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

[on Megyn Kelly] You could see there was bloody coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.