Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

There's a lot of reasons to talk to Alanis Morritt right now. It is, believe it or not, the 25th anniversary of Tagged Little

Pill. She's also about to release her first album in eight years, which is called

Such Pretty Forks in the Road, and it's a really wrenching powerful album.

She's supposed to tour for the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill

and the hit musical bass in that album was also supposed to still be on Broadway

but as with a lot of plans we've all had, the pandemic changed all that.

When I caught up with Alanis a few weeks ago, we talked about making her new album,

what she's been doing for the intervening eight years,

becoming a mother was a big part of that.

What it was like to work on the Broadway show, and she also looked back on the creation of Jagged Little

Pill in the first place, and even remembered her Canadian pop star years which preceded that album. So here's my full

conversation with Lelana's more set. So thanks for doing this. Thanks for having.

Yeah, these are strange times.

It's hard for everyone in different ways.

How are you holding up?

You know, it depends when you catch me.

I have my nightly panic attacks, but I've grown to anticipate

and actually kind of ride them out, interestingly, you know.

It's turned into a somatic exploration every night of,

you know, I warned my husband, I'm like, oh, here here comes he's always offering to help but sometimes you just got to go into the

abyss alone you know yeah I mean and really it's just like an exercise now deep breathing and noticing all the sensation through it like a good trauma recovery patient.

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