I don’t know exactly what to say to you about me, trying to insulate parts of myself by echoing things I do, books I read, music I listen to, colors I wear… I could probably say, with a bunch of and’s and/or ellipsis points, that I like to taste new food, I read from Clarice [...]

I am watching your mind-blowing performance of “Sympathetic Character”, from your ‘Feast on Scraps’ DVD. Can you describe (can you verbalize, actually) what was happening to you during that performance? Physically? Spiritually? Both as one?

Another question: are you familiar with Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophical work?

Kiss from Portugal

Dear Alanis, I’m writing my PHD thesis at the University of Minho (Portugal), which is about your musical writings I’m dealing with self-portraying and autobiography in your lyrics, through the lenses of our post-modernist notion of emotional, vulnerable inner self (or “selves”). Can you give me a glimpse of how you see this in [...]