Alanis Morissette

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#cathartic #happens #healed #healing #journey

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#felt #i #just #kind #loved

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#get #i #just #kid #never

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#articles #going #i #keep #lot

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#intellectual #into #just #out #overly

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#drive #experiences #get #i #life

You live, you learn. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#live #you

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#depending #different #different kinds #i #kinds

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#come #contemplating #day #go #happen

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#conversation #courage #go #go for it #just