Zitat des Tages von Alanis Morissette:
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
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.
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
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.
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!
I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.
When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.
I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.
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.
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
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.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears.
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.
