Sneak Peek - Alanis Morissette Featured on Oprah's SUPER SOUL SUNDAY Today on OWN

Oprah sits down with seven-time Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette in an all-new episode of "Super Soul Sunday" airing today, September 21 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

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In the episode, Oprah is joined by Alanis for a conversation about passion, art and the spiritual lessons that have helped her remain grounded despite the rollercoaster ride of stardom and success. In 1995, Alanis's U.S. debut album "Jagged Little Pill" went on to sell more than 33 million copies worldwide, catapulting her to international fame. Alanis and Oprah discuss her rise to fame, how she learned to channel previous pain into self-growth, and how her commercial success compares to the deeper connection she has now found through a more conscious way of living.

Upcoming guests include author and actress Ali MacGraw; best-selling author of "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert; advertising executive and SURVIVOR Madonna Badger, who lost her family in a tragic Christmas Day fire in 2011; spiritual teacher and recent congressional candidate Marianne Williamson; Academy Award/Grammy Award-winner Paul Williams and screenwriter/author Tracey Jackson on their new book "Gratitude & Trust"; Tibetan Budhist nun Pema Chödrön and Episcopal preacher and bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor.

CLIP: Alanis Morissette on the "Healing Power" of Her Music:

OPRAH: It's interesting to me that your music was so liberating and healing for so many women in particular and I wondered, did it ever -- did it heal you?
ALANIS: Yes, when I would listen back to it years later. So there are times, quiet little moments, apparently not so private anymore, but driving and I'll listen to a song and I'll just sob the whole way through it because I'll listen to it as though past self was singing to me now.
OPRAH: Really.
ALANIS: Yes.
OPRAH: But when you were doing it and writing it and in it, it was not -- it was not the same?
ALANIS: There would be a movement of energy, and I actually think that art itself is cathartic but it's not healing. I thought that I could get away with writing You Oughta Know and -- writing these songs and it would absolve me and redeem and clean up. But after having sung You Oughta Know night after night after night, if I had run into that person, I would have likely been catapulted right back to feeling uncomfortable and terrified and awkward.

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EXCERPT: Alanis Morissette on the "Tauma of Fame":
OPRAH: You use the term PTSD. What do you mean really by that?
ALANIS: Traumatized because on some level I think becoming famous and wanting fame, there's some trauma.
OPRAH: Did you want it?
ALANIS: Yeah, of course.
OPRAH: Yeah.
ALANIS: I don't think it happens by mistake for anybody frankly.
OPRAH: Yeah.
ALANIS: And then the traumatized person, in this case, me, gets traumatized by the very thing that I thought would be the balm. You know? I thought that all would be helped and healed and soothed by fame.
OPRAH: Because when I get famous --
ALANIS: I will be less lonely and I will be understood and I will be loved and that love will go in and heal any of the broken parts.
OPRAH: And the truth is, there's no difference between fame or, you know, when I get thin or when I get rich or I --
ALANIS: Yeah, when I get the right job.
OPRAH: When I meet the right guy. When I get the job. When I get the car. When I get babies.
ALANIS: When I retire.
OPRAH: When I retire.
ALANIS: Yep.
OPRAH: Then I will be happy, I will be healed.
ALANIS: Everything will be okay.
OPRAH: It's the same thing. Everything will be okay.

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About "Super Soul Sunday"

"Super Soul Sunday" is the multi-award winning daytime series that delivers a timely thought-provoking, eye-opening and inspiring block of programming designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them. Recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with two Daytime Emmy® awards, "Super Soul Sunday" features all-new conversations between Oprah Winfrey and top thinkers, authors, visionaries and spiritual leaders exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, spirituality, conscious living and what it means to be alive in today's world. The series is produced by Harpo Studios and executive producers are Tara Montgomery and Andrea Wishom.

Photo Credit: Harpo Studios, Inc. / George Burns

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