Alanis Morissette

Award won Role or nomination

• KSKevin Smith3 titles
• MDMatt Damon2 titles
• CFCarrie Fisher2 titles
• GGGloria Garayua2 titles
• BABen Affleck2 titles
• JGJaneane Garofalo2 titles
• CRChris Rock2 titles
• JLJason Lee2 titles
• SMScott Mosier2 titles
• MKMichelle Krusiec2 titles

• Partner

  • RRRyan Reynolds

• Influenced by

  • MAMadonna
  • CLCyndi Lauper
  • LPLiz Phair
  • TATori Amos
  • BJBjörk
  • TCTracy Chapman
  • PSPatti Smith
  • ADAni DiFranco
  • JJJanis Joplin
  • SOSinéad O'Connor
  • LZLed Zeppelin
  • JBJeff Buckley
  • SESeal

• Influenced

  • OROlivia Rodrigo

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USACC BY 2.0
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  Photo:Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USACC BY 2.0

• There's a lyric in the middle of the song that says, "I want to decide between survival and bliss." Basically I'm talking about the difference between really being alive and really embracing the reason why I'm here on this earth versus my just being asleep and sleep walking and accepting the status quo and accepting somewhat of a suffering mentality to being here. It really is my responsibility to distinguish the difference between the two and choose which one I want. It's so easy for me to want to not take responsibility for my life and relinquish it and look outside of myself for the answers that I know very well are within me. It's so scary to be silent and it's so scary to go within, until I do it. And once I'm doing it, I just wonder why I wasn't doing this all the time. So that decision to be fully alive is one that is preceded by some pretty intense decisions and some choices and responsibility-taking that at times can be very intimidating, again, before I do it.

  Alanis Morissette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When [Jagged Little Pill] came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  Alanis Morissette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• For a long time, I didn't understand the idea of not being able to appeal to a human heart. And then Marianne Williamson (if I can dare drop her name)... we were doing a Q&A on stage, and there was a question about evil, and my quick, sort of spiritual response was (and I actually stand by it in some senses)... was that human beings are... maybe we're traumatised, maybe we're disconnected, and our behavior, ideally, would be separate from the truth of who we essentially are.

  Alanis Morissette, CC BY-SA 4.0