Alanis Morissette

“I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.”

“The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine a...”

“They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.”

“I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.”

“Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same t...”

“Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.”

“I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these d...”

“I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I d...”

“I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.”

“I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misu...”

“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...”

“I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.”

“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 els...”

“My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.”

“I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.”

“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at...”

“Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.”

“I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.”

“I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.”

“I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.”