#om

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anyone #anything #bad #bad rap #changes

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #being human #compelled #continue #feel

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

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#best #book #breathing #deadline #down

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

#bones #defined #now #out #perilous

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#almost #debilitating #everybody #horrible #i

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#down #down the road #events #humor #i

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#forget #guess #i #i write #minutes

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#friends #high #high school #hippie #house