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‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s

She made her name with rage-fuelled anthems – and sold 75m records in the process. Now, with a highly anticipated Glastonbury slot, the California-dwelling earth mother is ready to let rip again …

“I have 14 different opinions about one thing.” It’s why, aged 19, she wrote Hand In My Pocket (lyrics include: I’m high, but I’m grounded / I’m sane, but I’m ­overwhelmed), one of several anthems on Jagged ­Little Pill, the album released 30 years ago this month. About a month ago, Morissette worked “feverishly” to find the house she’s in now, a block from where she used to live, surrounded by hills, “room-mating indefinitely” with a friend who lost his home in Altadena, north LA. Photograph: Shelby DuncanA few days after we speak, the city lit up again, this time with protests against Donald Trump’s immigration raids, which spread across the country after the US president’s deployment of the national guard.

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