"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.“

-Alanis Morissette

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"I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second."

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"In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming."

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"What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

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"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."

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