I’ve always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction. – Alanis Morissette
I’ve been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I’ve just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self. – Alanis Morissette
I didn’t have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don’t. – Alanis Morissette
There’s cleanliness to how I eat now. I’m much more in tune with my body, so now that I’m so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I’ve been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place. – Alanis Morissette
I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child’s needs so constantly is that they don’t grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true. – Alanis Morissette
The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. – Alanis Morissette
Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I’ve broken up with people over it. You can’t do monogamy 90 percent of the time. – Alanis Morissette
And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process. – 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. – Alanis Morissette
I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. – Alanis Morissette
I’m a liability to them – I’m a woman, I’m empowered, I’m an artist. I’ve had executives who can’t come to my shows they’re so scared of me. I’ve been a thorn in many people’s sides just by existing. – 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. – Alanis Morissette
I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won’t raise your self-esteem, it won’t create profound connection, it’s not going to heal your childhood traumas, it’s only going to amplify them. You’re going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways. – Alanis Morissette
I know that I’m deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I’m about the flakiest person you’re gonna meet. – Alanis Morissette
There’s a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There’s such a continuity between everything that I don’t really care what form it shows up in. – Alanis Morissette
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. – Alanis Morissette
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. – Alanis Morissette
I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same. – Alanis Morissette
I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can’t. – Alanis Morissette
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I’m teeming with the drive to write. – Alanis Morissette
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. – Alanis Morissette
I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don’t actually know a lot of the lyrics. – Alanis Morissette
Over the last couple of years, I’ve really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. – Alanis Morissette