Alanis Morissette

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I’m living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don’t enjoy being in the public eye.

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

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.