Alanis Morissette

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.

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.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

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

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It’s a lovely place to be, but it’s not extravagant.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.