Latest Alanis Morissette Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Oil, Years, Alchemist

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

  Alanis Morissette

  Moving, Warrior, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Dog, Real

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013..

• When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Giving, Lovely, Identity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Culture, Levels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

  Alanis Morissette

  Way, Enlightened, Believer

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

  Alanis Morissette

  Buckets, Next, Enough

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Scary, Awful

• I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

  Alanis Morissette

  Girlfriend, Pms, Mercury

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Animal, Self

• I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

  Alanis Morissette

  Girl, Art, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

  Alanis Morissette

  Past, Giving, Bankers

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

• It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fighting, Insecure, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

  Alanis Morissette

  War, Compassion, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

• In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Thinking, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

  Alanis Morissette

  Heart, Self, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

  Alanis Morissette

  Deities, Breaths, I Can

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

• If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.

  Alanis Morissette

  Motivation, Taken, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Blessed, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

  Alanis Morissette

  Judging, Fame, Intrigue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com