Alanis Morissette

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

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

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

What’s that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

I don’t think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I’m from the bottom I think they look at me and go ‘well, if he made it, I can make it’

As strange as movie making is, doing love scenes for the first time with someone you’ve never even said hello to does work in terms of having a fresh quality to a relationship

As we’ve seen, Trump is a masterful denier of both reality and responsibility. He’s a man who would kick you in the nuts and then tell you that your penis did it.

I think it’s the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I’m not ashamed of that by any means.

I haven’t really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said “Son, that is where you need to go”.

[on El Chapo interview] I have a terrible regret.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I was the original pop star, knocking off as many birds as you could get in one night. Pete’s got a bit of a chip, because I used to get all the girls.

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

Lipgloss is my calling!

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Does anyone remember laughter?

[on British Red Cross album to assist and create awareness of Refugee Crisis] The position we are in, it’s paramount we all do our best one way or another to help.

Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: ‘Every day!’