Alanis Morissette

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.