#ate

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #avoidance #because #bit #deal

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#before #beginning #being #commit #create

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#avoidance #deal #i #later #left

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

#augmenting #expressing #forward #here #i

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

— Alanis Morissette

#directly #i #i do #music #point

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

#fit #i #i can #long #melody

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#always #artistic #buying #condo #department

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#away #being #communicate #daily #daily lives

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#everything #external #had #i #just

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#books #clearly #consider #eventually #i