Introduction

Hi, this is Alanis Morissette. I'm very excited to share this new record. I've been traveling a little bit, spending time with family and just growing and, and filling my diary up with, with the goings-on of each day as time has passed. And then I go into the studio and put it all into the form of songs, and, and I've been anxiously anticipating being able to share it with people, so I'm excited that that day has come now. Another thing that I've been actively involved in over the last couple of years especially is taking trainings from both a man named Harville Hendrix as sort of a mentor of sorts, training in the therapist training for imago, imago therapy, and also been mentored in a huge way by a woman named Debbie Ford, who has written several books, and it's been amazing. I mean, it's just really, ultimately, if I can just, you know, encapsulate it in one sentence, it would be just integrating all different parts of oneself in order to be as whole as possible, rather than aspiring to be good as such, more about being whole. It's found its way into my songs too by default, so whatever it is that I'm journaling about, they wind up being reflected in, in my songs to the point where when you know I'm 106 years old and I look back on my life, I'll know where I was at that time based on listening to a record from that era. So what you're about to hear are songs that span from 1995 to 2004, songs from Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and Under Rugswept, and two songs from the new record called So-Called Chaos. So it's a great sort of overview of the last eight years.