Alanis Morissette

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

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.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

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

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.