What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer. Alanis Morissette More Quotes by Alanis Morissette More Quotes From Alanis Morissette What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good. Alanis Morissette self animal children It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it. Alanis Morissette hate writing people I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things. Alanis Morissette real spiritual dog The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body. Alanis Morissette warrior ideas moving 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 lovely identity giving When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. Alanis Morissette pain grief hurt I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art. Alanis Morissette people art thinking It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot. Alanis Morissette insecure voice fighting I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that. Alanis Morissette intrigue judging fame I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best. Alanis Morissette eye blessed believe 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. Alanis Morissette motivation taken two 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. Alanis Morissette pms mercury girlfriend I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me. Alanis Morissette levels culture people 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 writing people ideas When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go. Alanis Morissette self heart talking 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 responsibility believe thinking I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it. Alanis Morissette alchemist oil years My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house. Alanis Morissette parenting house time son I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please. Alanis Morissette older less getting getting-older My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people. Alanis Morissette my-life myself achievement life
