Alanis Morissette has admitted that she takes being called an angry woman as a compliment.
Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, the Ironic singer said: ''When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
''I thought I would be retaliated against or physically hit or vilified. Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.''
Alanis, who sold over 33 million copies of her album Jagged Little Pill in the early 1990s, explained that she preferred fame in the latter part of the decade.
She added ''I think fame became exciting for me in the late 90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness (sic). I could offer comfort and upliftment and be a leader and take on that responsibility, rather than see it as this daunting thing (sic).''
