To quote Chico Marx, “I don’t remember. I was only a little baby.”

My earliest memory is when I was four years old and I bit my older sister on the arm. Does that count?

For Alanis, music and lyrics are the canvas upon which she reveals herself — her honest inner angst, her struggles, her joys and sorrows, her very life. I love the introspection and self-analysis that permeates so many of her songs, giving them a depth that is lacking in so much contemporary music. I eagerly look [...]