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We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

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Alanis Morissette
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 1
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Ottawa (Ontario)
Alanis Nadine Morissette
Anger
Value
Equal
Inspiration
Taught
Excitement
Happiness
Ashamed
Values
Confusion
Fear
Sadness

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What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
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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.
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I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
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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.
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When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
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I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.
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I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
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I started making music because I could.
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What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
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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.
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Your political views really denote your spiritual views.
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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.
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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.
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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
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Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
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Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
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It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
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As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
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