Alanis Morissette

I love to get to the underbelly of why people are up in arms about anything. Really, what I see is a big shadow in the West, in America especially, and everyone's afraid of looking stupid. But the truth is, I'm a genius and I'm stupid at the same time. ”

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work. ”

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man. ”

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in. ”

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ”

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long. ”

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. ”

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things. ”

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating. ”

I love songs that are very autobiographical. ”