-I want to hang out with you
all week.
Come on. It's fun
hanging out with you.
-You're a great hype perso
by the way.
You could come on tour with me
-I'll just go around with
tambourine making it work, man
-Like, you want to know
a tambourine.
-Have you ever busked before
-I have busked.
-Where have you busked?
-When I first moved to L.A.,
I think I was 19,
and I went to
the Third Street Promenade
in Santa Monica and busked
-Yeah.
-And then two police peopl
came and carted me away
because I didn't have a permit
-19, is that when you wrot
"Jagged Little Pill?"
Started writing it?
-Yeah.
Yeah, started writing it.
-Is it true that no one -- n
record labels were interested?
They didn't want to sign you
-Not an uncommon thing
for rejection.
-Yeah. No, I guess not.
-To persevere.
-How many songs did you have
written at the time?
-I had written 10 initial ones
just to kind of get
my whistle wet,
and then when we got
the rejections, I just --
I asked everyone to stop
so I can go back under my rock
and keep writing.
-Yeah, 'cause it's depressing,
right?
All that rejection.
-Rejection is not inspiring.
Although in some --
some cases it is.
Yeah.
-Anyway, I went back and wrote
more, and then once I was
writing "All I Really Want,"
which is the last song on th
record that I wrote with Glen,
we got a phone call to go me
Maverick Guy Oseary,
Madonna's label.
Yeah.
I said, "I'm in my sweats.
I'm a mess.
I can't go."
And they said, "Who cares?
Get in the car and go."
So I met him in my sweat pants
and we played --
-Guy Oseary.
Yeah, Guy. you know guy.
-I love Guy Oseary.
-And we played "You Oughta Know"
and "Perfect"
and "Hand In My Pocket"
and he was very excited.
-Oh, my gosh.
I just want to remind everybod
how giant this record was.
It sold over 33 million copies
worldwide.
You can plug your ears
if you want to.
-I'm Canadian.
-16 times platinum, diamond,
won four Grammys,
12 weeks at number one,
three number one singles.
This is like a legendary record.
I loved it so much.
It's so great.
One of my all-time favorites
-Thank you.
-I love it.
-Thank you.
-And now you turned it
into a Broadway musical.
-We turned it
into a Broadway musical.
-Yeah. Takes a village, right?
-Yeah.
-How long have you
been working on this?
-Eight years.
-Wow.
-Diablo Cody wrote, and
Diane Paulus is directing it
and Tom Kitt doing the music
Larbi doing the choreography
It's the dream team.
It's wonderful.
-Wow, looks so fun.
-Yeah.
-Is this about you?
Is it the Alanis Morissett
story?
-It's not a direct
autobiographical story.
It's a story about a family,
but Diablo Cody said she pulle
all the characters
out of the songs.
So in some ways I relate
to a lot of the characters
in a direct way.
-Yeah.
It opens tomorrow?
-Tomorrow.
-Isn't that unbelievable.
-I can't even believe it.
-What a year you're gonna
to have, by the way.
-It's so bannerish.
-It really is a bannerish
year already.
-Yes.
-You have this
"Jagged Little Pill"
is opening tomorrow.
So that's why --
I'm so exciting to hear.
-I am so excited.
-You have a new record
coming out in May, right?
-Yes.
Yes.
-Or around that.
We don't know yet.
-2020.
-And then you're going
on tour for the
"Jagged Little Pill's" 25t
anniversary tour.
-Yes. Yes.
-With Liz Phair and Garbage.
-Yes.
-Oh, my God.
-I know.
-Come on. that is fantastic.
-It's so fun.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Congrats on everything.
-Thank you.
-Break a leg on this play.
"Jagged Little Pill."
I want everyone
to go see this play.
Tight now it's over at --
this is at
the Broadhurst Theatre,
and in fact,
just to help everyone
go see this,
Alanis was very nice enough.
Everyone in our audience
is getting tickets to go see
"Jagged Little Pill."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Alanis Morissette, everybody
"Jagged Little Pill" opens
tomorrow on Broadway.
