Canadian - Musician | June 1, 1974 -
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Alanis Morissette
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I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
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I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
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I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
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What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
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You live, you learn.
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I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
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Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
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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.
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