Quote

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Alanis Morissette

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Started
Contributing
Purpose
Offering
Used
Tool
Really
Serve
Life
Inspiring
Tools
Fame
Fun

More quotes by Alanis Morissette

Image
I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
Alanis Morissette
Image
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
Alanis Morissette
Image
We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.
Alanis Morissette
Image
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Alanis Morissette
Image
They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
Alanis Morissette
Image
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.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.
Alanis Morissette
Image
You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn
Alanis Morissette
Image
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.
Alanis Morissette
Image
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
Alanis Morissette
Image
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
Alanis Morissette
Image
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I want to walk through life.
Alanis Morissette
Image
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.
Alanis Morissette
Image
Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
Alanis Morissette
Image
Your choice of armor was your intellect.
Alanis Morissette
Image
I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.
Alanis Morissette