Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards and has been nominated for two Golden Globe Award as well as preliminary Academy Award nominee. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records Canada. Her worldwide debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, released in 1995, which remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest selling debut album worldwide, selling more than 30 million units globally. Her following album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998 and was a success as well. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include Under Rug Swept, So-Called Chaos and Flavors of Entanglement. Morissette has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.
In February 2005, Morissette became a naturalized citizen of the United States while maintaining her Canadian citizenship.
Alanis Morissette Personal Quotes:
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.
The whole celebrity thing is not something I’m overly interested in. I don’t pop up at parties. It’s just not my thing.
Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don’t care how many units I sell.
That what we judge in someone else, we are really judging in ourselves.
So many times I’ve been just gripping the steering wheel and driving, and just have a piece of paper on where my horn is, and just writing sort of looking up and down. I’ve done that so much! It’ll be worth the crash.
I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn’t change any of them.
Every time I go through something difficult, I think, ‘This is the mother-load. I’m not going to get through this one.’ And then, six months later, I’m like, ‘What’s his name again?’
I’ve never talked about who my songs are about, and I won’t because…they’re written for the sake of personal expression. So with all due respect to whomever may see themselves in my songs – and it happens all the time – I never really comment on it because I write these songs for myself. I don’t write them for other people.
