Alanis Morissette Quotes

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

I want to capture the mood I have now, post-cancer, in my music.

I'm always giving life lessons in my music.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

I learn life from the poets.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.