Quotes by Alanis Morissette

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 misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

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.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.

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

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.

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