When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
— Alanis Morissette
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
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.
They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
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.
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
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.
I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
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.
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
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.
