Alanis Morissette

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

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

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

Blues is to Jazz what yeast is to bread; without it, it’s flat.

What we play is life.

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper… a windshield wiper that’s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing ‘Melancholy Baby’ and you’ve got dance music.

I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really.

If you must listen to bad music, please use headphones.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I don’t like to look back because the whole point in Jazz is doing it now.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.

People who are meant to be drawn to your music will find you.

My version of Georgia became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

If it ain’t fun, I want no part of it man. That’s the reason I play.

My singing evolved with a feeling of intense relaxation, always using my diaphram and breathing specifically through my nose.

When I heard T-Bone, I flat out lost my mind.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.