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Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and musician. She began her music career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop albums.
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Alanis Nadine Morissetteis a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and musician. She began her music career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop albums. In 1995, she released the alternative rock album Jagged Little Pill, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and propelled her to become a cultural phenomenon. Morissette won the 1996 Grammy Award for Album of the Year among other accolades, and the album was adapted into a 2018 rock musical. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has Jagged Little Pill on their 200 Definitive Albums list, and it appeared on various editions of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” guide. Its lead single, “You Oughta Know”, was also included on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.
Morissette followed up with the highly anticipated experimental album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998). Her fifth album, Under Rug Swept (2002), marked the first time Morissette was the sole producer of an entire album. Taking further creative control and production duties, Morissette continued her career with subsequent studio albums, including So-Called Chaos (2004), Flavors of Entanglement (2008), Havoc and Bright Lights (2012), Such Pretty Forks in the Road (2020), and The Storm Before the Calm (2022). Her first three internationally released studio albums topped the Billboard 200 albums chart, and her next four albums peaked within the Top 20.
Morissette has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. She has won a Brit Award, seven Grammy Awards, fourteen Juno Awards, and has been nominated or two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. Her singles “You Oughta Know”, “Hand in My Pocket”, “Ironic”, “You Learn”, “Head Over Feet”, “Uninvited”, “Thank U”, and “Hands Clean”, reached top 40 in major charts around the world. She also holds the record for the most No. 1s on the weekly Billboard Alternative Songs chart among female soloists, group leaders, or duo members. Rolling Stone described her as the “queen of alt-rock angst”, and VH1 ranked her the 53rd-greatest woman in rock and roll. In 2005, she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
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.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
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.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
It’s when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn’t work for me.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I could write six songs in one day with everything that’s going on.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I’ll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
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.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.
Canadian-American singer (born 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.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Canadian-American singer (born 1974)