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I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

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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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People

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I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
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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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That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.
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How about not equating death with stopping?
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I think everyone's hungry for the truth
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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
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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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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 salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
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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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I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
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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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I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.
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I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.
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I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
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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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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
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As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
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