Art & Creativity Quote by Alanis Morissette

Morissette is drawing a line between music as service and music as self-exposure, and she does it without pretending the first version was shallow. “Entertain people” and “take them away” frames early music-making as a kind of benign escape hatch: the performer as tour guide out of the workday, the commute, the small humiliations. It’s generous, even caretaking. You can hear the old pop contract in it: I’ll give you relief, you give me attention.

Then she pivots to the present tense: “what I see it being now.” That phrase matters. She’s not issuing a manifesto about what music should be; she’s describing an internal reclassification. Music shifts from outward-facing product to inward-facing instrument, from pleasing to processing. “Communicate” is the bridge word: she still wants contact with an audience, but the message now starts in a more private place.

The kicker is “tap into my subconscious,” which is both mystical and practical. It suggests songwriting as extraction, not invention; the work is less about crafting a mask and more about removing one. In the 1990s, Morissette became synonymous with confession-as-hook, but this quote implies even that era was only a step toward something riskier: making art that doesn’t begin with what will land, but with what is hidden, unresolved, maybe even embarrassing.

The subtext is artistic adulthood: escaping the tyranny of being liked, replacing performance with revelation, and trusting that the deepest material is also the most shareable.