Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissetteis a Canadian-American alternative rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s, with two commercially successful dance-pop albums. Afterwards, she moved to Los Angeles, California, and in 1995, released Jagged Little Pill, a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million units globally. Her following album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 June 1974
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.
I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
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.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.