Alanis Morissette Quotes

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.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I always make time for the things that are important to me.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

Cut the things out of your life that keep you from reaching your dream. It doesn't matter if it's cooking or belly dancing.

We all have dreams, whether it be about success in our careers, improving our relationship with family and friends, or sorting out our finances.

I am learning how to strike a balance between my professional and personal life.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.