Politics & Power Quote by Alanis Morissette

It reads like an artist sketching a future in pencil, not ink: kids “or two or three,” “probably” repeated like a protective charm against certainty. That casual hedging is the tell. Morissette isn’t making a life plan; she’s refusing the clean narrative arc the culture loves to paste onto women who’ve already had their big public moment. The line pushes back on the idea that becoming a parent or “settling down” equals creative closure.

The real charge is in how she frames her next subjects: “political events,” “spiritual things,” and “humor.” Those aren’t random categories so much as permission slips. Politics signals a widening lens beyond confessional autobiography; spirituality nods to the interior life she’s always worked from; humor is the pressure release valve, an insistence that seriousness doesn’t have to harden into sanctimony. In three quick beats she maps a career that can mature without losing its bite.

Context matters because Morissette came up as the patron saint of raw, diaristic intensity. People still expect the jagged-edge breakup opus, as if vulnerability were a fixed brand rather than a mode. Here, she’s telegraphing evolution: domesticity won’t domesticate the art; it will feed it. The subtext is almost managerial: there will always be material, because life keeps generating friction - public, private, metaphysical - and she’ll keep metabolizing it into songs. The offhand tone is strategic. It makes reinvention sound inevitable, not performative.