Alanis Morissette

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. ”

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house. ”

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything. ”

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. ”

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. ”

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school. ”

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha! ”

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave. ”

I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends. ”

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual. ”