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Famous Alanis Morissette Quotes

“It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.”

Alanis Morissette

"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through, a great peace greets you there”

Alanis Morissette

“Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything”

Alanis Morissette

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

Alanis Morissette

“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”

Alanis Morissette

“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette Quotes about feelings

“When [Jagged Little Pill] came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.”

Alanis Morissette

"Ten Years On, Alanis Unplugs Little Pill" by Melinda Newman in Billboard (4 March 2005) http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000827178

“Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you
Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to”

Alanis Morissette

Feast on Scraps (2002)

“I feel this, truly proclaimed, will help the curbing of this tendency
I know this sharing of shame will ensure that I won't forget myself so easily”

Alanis Morissette

Spineless
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.”

Alanis Morissette

You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Alanis Morissette Quotes

“How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else,
How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.”

Alanis Morissette

Eight Easy Steps"
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“Supposed former infatuation junkie,
I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.”

Alanis Morissette

So Pure
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

“I'd speak of artistry you would roll your eyes skyward
When I'd speak of spirituality you would label it absurd
When I spoke of possibility you would frown and shake your head
If I had stayed much longer, I'd have surely imploded”

Alanis Morissette

Unprodigal Daughter
Feast on Scraps (2002)

“To all the unheard wisdom in the school yard: you think you're the right ones; you swear you're the charmed ones I'm sure. But how can you go on with such conviction? Who do you think you are when you question me?”

Alanis Morissette

Can't Not
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

“I want you to know, that I am happy for you
I wish nothing but the best for you both
An older version of me,
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theatre?”

Alanis Morissette

You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“For a long time, I didn't understand the idea of not being able to appeal to a human heart. And then Marianne Williamson (if I can dare drop her name)… we were doing a Q&A on stage, and there was a question about evil, and my quick, sort of spiritual response was (and I actually stand by it in some senses)… was that human beings are… maybe we're traumatised, maybe we're disconnected, and our behavior, ideally, would be separate from the truth of who we essentially are.”

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette - Wake Up San Francisco with Adyashanti & Tami Simon - YouTube (28 March 2015; starts at 14:17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_ClddVgJs

“My brothers,
They never went blind for what they did, but I may as well have.
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son,
I had one more stupid question.”

Alanis Morissette

Forgiven
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“You're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you
You're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort”

Alanis Morissette

Bent for You
Feast on Scraps (2002)

“There's an obvious attraction
To the path of least resistance in your life
Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence
Could make you try tonight

'Cause it's easy not to
So much easier not to
And what goes around never comes around to you
To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.”

Alanis Morissette

Wake Up
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“I am the funniest woman that you've ever known.
I am the dullest woman that you've ever known.
I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone
Who is as everything as I am sometimes.”

Alanis Morissette

Everything
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“I want to decide between survival and bliss
And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am
But I know I won't keep on playing the victim”

Alanis Morissette

Precious Illusions
Under Rug Swept

“You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.”

Alanis Morissette

This Grudge
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know.”

Alanis Morissette

You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?”

Alanis Morissette

The Couch
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

“There's a lyric in the middle of the song that says, "I want to decide between survival and bliss." Basically I'm talking about the difference between really being alive and really embracing the reason why I'm here on this earth versus my just being asleep and sleep walking and accepting the status quo and accepting somewhat of a suffering mentality to being here. It really is my responsibility to distinguish the difference between the two and choose which one I want. It's so easy for me to want to not take responsibility for my life and relinquish it and look outside of myself for the answers that I know very well are within me. It's so scary to be silent and it's so scary to go within, until I do it. And once I'm doing it, I just wonder why I wasn't doing this all the time. So that decision to be fully alive is one that is preceded by some pretty intense decisions and some choices and responsibility-taking that at times can be very intimidating, again, before I do it.”

Alanis Morissette

On her song "Precious Illusions", in "Alanis Morissette talks about songs from 'Under Rug Swept'", in MSO (23 Jun 2002) http://web.archive.org/web/20020623040236/http://msopr.com/mso/morissette-cutbycut.html

“Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate”

Alanis Morissette

All I Really Want
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“You were uncomfortable in your own skin you were thirsty but mostly you were beautiful
If we were our paranoias I'd be joining you
if we were our incomes
If we were our obsessions
If we were our afflictions i'd be joining you”

Alanis Morissette

Joining You
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

“I want to be naked running through the streets,
I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be.”

Alanis Morissette

So Called Chaos
So-Called Chaos (2004)

Alanis Morissette

Narcissus
Under Rug Swept