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America's a very traumatized society.
Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
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.
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.
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
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.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.
Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
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.
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.
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Alanis Morissette
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