I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a…

Alanis Morissette
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I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low. ✨ Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'. Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.
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