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“I didn’t even want it on the album. I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please, please, please’. So I said, ‘OK…’”: How Alanis Morissette created her biggest hit

Wednesday December 31, 2025. 12:04 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

“I see words as paint, so I play with them,' she said

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