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Alanis Morissette


Canadian
June 1, 1974
Musician
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The ego is a fascinating monster.


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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.


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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.


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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.


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


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I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.


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I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.


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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
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Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.


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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
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I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.
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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
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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.
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I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
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Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
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Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.
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I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
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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.
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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.
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The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.
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I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.
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My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
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When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
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I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
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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.
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