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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#intellectual #into #just #out #overly

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha! ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #brother #fate #friends #him

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

— Alanis Morissette

#greatest #grow #grow up #i #i can

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#confused #effect #equal #feel #having

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#default #here #i #i always #songs

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #biggest #creative #creative ways #enjoy

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#cathartic #happens #healed #healing #journey

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

#felt #i #just #kind #loved

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.' ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #before #connor #expressing #i

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? ↗

— Christopher Morley

#late #only #put #too #too late