Alanis Morissette Biography

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

"The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing."

"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."

"I think you become an adult when you hit rock bottom"

On her Catholic upbringing and sexuality:
“Brought up Catholic, I was taught that if you're a virgin, then you're clean and men will love you and you are going to be this prize. So while I was very sexually active from the time I was 14 years old, I remained a virgin, which was hilariously ridiculous in retrospect. But I was inundated with this whole you-have-to-stay-quote-unquote-pure thing. (Eventually) I had sex and saw how beautiful and freeing and godlike it was.”

On drugs:
“I've dabbled with smoking pot, but I don't really feel comfortable doing it. I like being still and being connected. And my life in general feels very euphoric. All the things that I believe drugs can do, whether it's the clarity or out-of-body experience or whatever, I've experienced in a pretty big way by being straight.”

On how she spends her money:
“My business manager said all her clients have one thing that they spend their money on, and with me it's travelling. Whether it's for myself or friends or family, I spend a pretty large amount of money flying people all over the world.”

On her nudity in the music video for ‘Thank U’:
“I was in my shower when I thought of the idea…When I'm naked, I feel so free and liberated and unself-conscious and close to God. So I thought it would be appropriate to be naked in my video.”