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I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Church
Judgmental
Sunday
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I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Motivational
Diet
Approach
Chocolate
Day To Day
Eating
Healthy Diet
Indulge
Treats
Wine
Sustainable
Entire Life
Glass
Mandatory
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It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Believe
Concerned
Industry
Music Industry
Reason
Grammys
Mainly
Material
Pull
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I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Opportunity
Commit
Hot
Workaholic
Jump
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I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Appropriate
Women Beautiful Me
Biological
Imperative
Maternal
Mommy
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I love to get to the underbelly of why people are up in arms about anything. Really, what I see is a big shadow in the West, in America especially, and everyone's afraid of looking stupid. But the truth is, I'm a genius and I'm stupid at the same time.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Arms
Shadow
Stupid
Truth Is
Love Time Truth
Love Truth Time
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Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Bored
Kale
My Best Friend
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Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Chemistry
Complement
Harmony
Affairs
Alpha
Seat
Sustainable
Driver
Lack
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Blessed
Eye
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There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Constant
Energetic
Intense
Invasion
Laughed
Literal
Survival
Chronic
Period
Era
Jagged
Mode
Physical
Pill
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Design
Buying
Department
Fashion
Magazines
Performing
Plates
Wall
Always Me New
Condo
Designing
Me Looking New
Low
Ripping
Walls
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I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Abuse
Child Abuse
Children
Cost
Eye
Fame
Public Eye
Thinking
Wealth
Well Being
Case
Develop
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
War
Compassion
Done
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The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Commitment
Connecting
Gaga
Intimacy
Underestimate
Lady
Lady Gaga
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I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Athlete
Integrating
Jocks
Lethargy
Musician
Philosopher
Stronger
Life Me My Life
Jock
Mission
Returned
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Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Being Famous
Blank
Offering
Prepared
Sacred
Yourself People Way
Lots
Celebrities
Define
Project
Putting
Screen
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Birthday
Smile
Age
Canada
Ego
Fascinating
Righteousness
Sarcasm
Taught
Thinking
Young
Young Age
Weird
Complex
Monster
Planet
Save
Serve
Turned
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Break Up
Moving On
Smile
Breakup
Different Place
Growing Up
Thank God
Time God Thank God
Arrive
Informed
Thank
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When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Anger
Men
Aftermath
Avoidance
Horrible
Song
Terrified
Therapy
Tongue
Life Men My Life
Express
Reaction
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Belief
Liberating
Mind
Peace Of Mind
Privacy
Secrecy
Self
Transparent
Authentic
Detriment
Sustain
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Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Ageism
Carving
Eye
Middle
Middle Ground
Public Eye
Taken
Teenager
Works
Women Face Me
Public
Directions
Feeling
Ground
Older
Seriously
Thirties
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Moving
Warrior
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Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Boyfriend
Couple
My Boyfriend
Touring
Years
Life Time Family
Balancing
Life Family Time
List
Wayside
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Cleanliness
Eating
Energy
Levels
Tunes
Affect
Foods
Tune
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Continuity
Dresses
Navigate
Paparazzi
Writing
Decorate
Relationships
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I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Amplify
Childhood
Criticism
Fame
Heal
Holes
Poke
Praise
Profound
Self Esteem
Violent
Lot
Beliefs
Connection
Create
Provides
Raise
Subject
Ways
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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.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Hands
Hate
Thinking
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In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Art
People
Thinking
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When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Believe
Thinking
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No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Sex
Years
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dog
Real
Spiritual
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As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Sweet
Weed
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Animal
Children
Self
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