The Miami Herald spoke with Alanis Morissette in a Q&A ahead of the singer songwriter’s performance at Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Monday night, asking her what she thought about younger peers like Avril Lavigne or Pink, who are so obviously influenced by her. “I’m flattered if they are in fact influenced, and some have been very verbal about it,” Alanis responded. “I’m excited when women can feel free to express themselves. It’s a very confusing postmodern time for females and the feminist movement. I finally feel like I’m getting my bearings, because I heard this great quote from someone who said the feminist movement gave us independence, but it didn’t give us love. So I see all these young women trying to figure out what footsteps to follow and what virgin snow to put tracks in. There’s a sort of lack of definition of what feminism means. I see a lot of women, myself included, struggling through that, even in music sometimes. And it’s fascinating to watch — it’s exciting to see us all define what 2008 means for a woman.”

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After Dave Coulier of ‘Full House’ fame claimed earlier this year that he was ex-lover who inspired the song ‘You Oughta Know’ by Alanis Morrissette, the singer is still refusing to confirm or deny if that was the case. “With all due respect to whomever may see themselves in my songs – and it happens all the time – I never really comment on it because I write these songs for myself,” The Associated Press reports the singer said recently during a conference call with reporters. “I don’t write them for other people. I can appreciate that some people say, ‘Hey, that’s me.’ And whether they’re accurate or not for whatever reason, people recognize themselves in my songs and that says something right there.”

Alanis Morissette spoke with Cole Haddon of CityBeat about her new album ‘Flavors of Entanglement’, which has seen the singer songwriter grow up considerably in between the release of ‘So-Called Chaos’ in 2004, which Alanis admits she hit “rock bottom,” going through a “personal unraveling of a couple of very significant relationships in my life at the time.”

“(‘Flavors’) reflects some serious disassemblings in my personal life, and it’s sort of far-reaching,” Morissette explained. “It reaches into my professional life. It’s like a breaking, or a broken moment captured, and then, I like to think, a phoenix rising. It allowed me to hit rock bottom in a way that I never done before. I’d always sort of bottom-dwelled, but I never really bounced off the bottom. The best news of all for me was that there is a bottom because I used to think that emotions were bottomless and, if I didn’t calibrate it, that I would be eaten whole. So now that I know that, when I surrender, there’s a bottom and I can bounce back up. I realize the only thing that there is bottomlessness to is joy. That’s a pretty big revelation for me.” Read more.

Newsweek spoke with Alanis Morissette in a Q&A, asking the Canadian singer about ex-boyfriend Ryan Reynolds’ engagement to Scarlett Johansson. “I’m really happy for him,” Alanis responded, laughing. She also spoke about plans for a book, telling Jac Chebatoris, “I’m so excited about it. I’m having to put a pin in it right now because I’m touring and I can’t focus on it, but it will re-emerge when this cycle of touring ends. It’s a book of essays that I’ve written and photographs from my travels and self-care practices.”

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