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I love songs that are very autobiographical.

Alanis Morissette

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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
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Love
Autobiographical

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
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I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
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The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
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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.
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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.
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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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And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
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How about not equating death with stopping?
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Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
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I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.
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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.
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Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
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There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.
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If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.
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I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.
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Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.
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When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
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I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
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I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.
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I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
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